sonify
Americanverb (used with object)
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To do this, he first used a program to sonify environmental data by assigning sounds to different data values.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 18, 2024
The devices can sonify, for example, the electrical impulses that underground fungal networks emit as they nourish the ecosystems they support through a forest’s root systems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
“Standardization is hard! There’s no handbook saying, ‘You want to sonify data?
From Scientific American ● Jan. 5, 2023
We discovered lots of techniques to sonify the space, but found that what we thought would sound like a river didn't sounds like that at all, so ended up simplifying the space massively.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2010
That work has informed much of the spatial description and storytelling in Papa Sangre, where the team had to try and sonify objects, like keys, that players needed to collect.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2010
Then, in 2022, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory sonified this wave data into a couple of sounds the human ear could hear at frequencies 144 quadrillion and 288 quadrillion times higher than the original.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2025
A geo-environmental scientist from Japan has composed a string quartet using sonified climate data.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 18, 2024
The album incorporated into the music sonified light curves, or what stars “sound” like when the vibrations of a star are amplified to a frequency that the human ear can hear.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2019
Raspy instrumental sounds do return at the end, but they become natural, no longer illness sonified.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2015
The chase now is inadvertent, but the remorselessness remains, of noise pollution and other kinds, of a sonified, plasticated, damaged ocean.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 9, 2013
There are entire projects dedicated to sonifying data from astronomical objects.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2025
From there, the grander goal of developing a framework for sonifying data in both educational and research contexts could be within reach.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 5, 2023
Besides sonifying exoplanet transits, researchers are experimenting with audible data for supernovae and other transient cosmic events.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 5, 2023
“The exploration we are making on visualizing and sonifying the abstract and the multidimensional is likely to teach us a great deal about the limitations of our sensorial tools – and how to overcome them.”
From Forbes ● Jul. 12, 2011
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