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View article: HOTGAME: A Corpus of Early House and Techno Music from Germany and America
HOTGAME: A Corpus of Early House and Techno Music from Germany and America Open
Many publications on early house and techno music have the character of documentation and include (auto-)biographical statements from contemporaries of the scene. This literature has led to many statements, hypotheses, and conclusions. The…
View article: MosquitoSong+: A noise-robust deep learning model for mosquito classification from wingbeat sounds
MosquitoSong+: A noise-robust deep learning model for mosquito classification from wingbeat sounds Open
In order to assess risk of mosquito-vector borne disease and to effectively target and monitor vector control efforts, accurate information about mosquito vector population densities is needed. The traditional and still most common approac…
View article: Producer vs. Rapper: Who Dominates the Hip Hop Sound? A Case Study
Producer vs. Rapper: Who Dominates the Hip Hop Sound? A Case Study Open
In hip-hop music, rappers and producers play important, but rather different roles. However, both contribute to the overall sound, as rappers bring in their voice, while producers are responsible for the music composition and mix. In this …
View article: Sound Terminology in Sonification
Sound Terminology in Sonification Open
Sonification research is intrinsically interdisciplinary. Consequently, a proper documentation of and interdisciplinary discourse about a sonification is often hindered by terminology discrepancies between involved disciplines, i.e., the l…
View article: SOMson -- Sonification of Multidimensional Data in Kohonen Maps
SOMson -- Sonification of Multidimensional Data in Kohonen Maps Open
Kohonen Maps, aka. Self-organizing maps (SOMs) are neural networks that visualize a high-dimensional feature space on a low-dimensional map. While SOMs are an excellent tool for data examination and exploration, they inherently cause a los…
View article: Numbers, Facts and Methods, State-of-the-Art, Current Trends and Evaluation of Arguable Claims and Statements — A 2024 Overview
Numbers, Facts and Methods, State-of-the-Art, Current Trends and Evaluation of Arguable Claims and Statements — A 2024 Overview Open
In our discipline, some numbers, facts and methods are established and unquestionable. Still, a credible source is hard to find. Likewise, some state-of-the-art papers do not have the right focus, or they do not point at current research t…
View article: Sound Terminology Describing Production and Perception of Sonification
Sound Terminology Describing Production and Perception of Sonification Open
Sonification research is intrinsically interdisciplinary. Consequently, a proper documentation of, and interdisciplinary discourse about a sonification is often hindered by terminology discrepancies between involved disciplines, i.e., the …
View article: Introduction to the special issue on design and perception of interactive sonification
Introduction to the special issue on design and perception of interactive sonification Open
Design and perception of sonification can be considered from the viewpoint of psychoacoustics and auditory scene analysis, but also from the viewpoint of aesthetics and user experience.The theme of the Interactive Sonification Workshop (IS…
View article: Review of: "Solving the naming ambiguity of auditory localization mechanisms: HRTF & HRSL, and ILD, ITD, IPD"
Review of: "Solving the naming ambiguity of auditory localization mechanisms: HRTF & HRSL, and ILD, ITD, IPD" Open
Potential competing interests: No potential competing interests to declare.This manuscript deals with the Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF), in particular, with the ambiguous use of the term.It suggests the introduction of a new term t…
View article: Three-Dimensional Sonification for Image-Guided Surgery
Three-Dimensional Sonification for Image-Guided Surgery Open
In neuronavigation and image-guided surgery, the clinician’s surgical instrument is tracked in relation to the patient’s anatomy. This way, they can be guided towards pre-planned target locations, like positions for burr holes, incision po…
View article: Mixing Levels -- A Rock Music Spirit Level App
Mixing Levels -- A Rock Music Spirit Level App Open
To date, sonification apps are rare. Music apps on the other hand are widely used. Smartphone users like to play with music. In this manuscript, we present Mixing Levels, a spirit level sonification based on music mixing. Tilting the smart…
View article: Goniometers are a Powerful Acoustic Feature for Music Information Retrieval Tasks
Goniometers are a Powerful Acoustic Feature for Music Information Retrieval Tasks Open
Goniometers, also known as Phase Scopes or Vector Scopes, are audio metering tools that help music producers and mixing engineers monitor spatial aspects of a music mix, such as the stereo panorama, the width of single sources, the amount …
View article: VISUALIZATION VS. SONIFICATION TO LEVEL A TABLE
VISUALIZATION VS. SONIFICATION TO LEVEL A TABLE Open
Tiltification is a bullseye spirit level app that utilizes graphical and auditory display. In this paper I describe an experiment in which participants level a table using visualization and sonification. I found that using sonification par…
View article: Psychoacoustics in the Loop. Proceedings of the 7th Interactive Sonification Workshop.
Psychoacoustics in the Loop. Proceedings of the 7th Interactive Sonification Workshop. Open
These are the proceedings of the Interactive Sonification Workshop 2022 (ISon 2022) that took place in Delmenhorst, Germany, on September 22nd–23rd 2022 organized by the Bremen Spatial Cognition Center, University of Bremen and the confere…
View article: PAMPAS: A PsychoAcoustical Method for the Perceptual Analysis of multidimensional Sonification
PAMPAS: A PsychoAcoustical Method for the Perceptual Analysis of multidimensional Sonification Open
The sonification of data to communicate information to a user is a relatively new approach that established itself around the 1990s. To date, many researchers have designed their individual sonification from scratch. There are no standards…
View article: Both Rudimentary Visualization and Prototypical Sonification can Serve as a Benchmark to Evaluate New Sonification Designs
Both Rudimentary Visualization and Prototypical Sonification can Serve as a Benchmark to Evaluate New Sonification Designs Open
Comparing sonification with visualization is like comparing apples and oranges. While visualizations are ubiquitous to the public and have established names, principles, application areas, and sophisticated designs, sonifications tend to b…
View article: Recommendations to Develop, Distribute and Market Sonification Apps
Recommendations to Develop, Distribute and Market Sonification Apps Open
After decades of research, sonification is still rarely adopted in consumer electronics, software and user interfaces. Outside the science and arts scenes the term sonification seems not well known to the public. As a means of science comm…
View article: PAMPAS: A PsychoAcoustical Method for the Perceptual Analysis of Multidimensional Sonification
PAMPAS: A PsychoAcoustical Method for the Perceptual Analysis of Multidimensional Sonification Open
The sonification of data to communicate information to a user is a relatively new approach that established itself around the 1990s. To date many researchers design their individual sonification from scratch. There are no standards in soni…
View article: The Antenna Base Plays a Crucial Role in Mosquito Courtship Behavior
The Antenna Base Plays a Crucial Role in Mosquito Courtship Behavior Open
Mosquitoes are vectors of pathogens that cause diseases like malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, chikungunya and Zika. For mosquito control it is crucial to understand their hearing system, as mosquitoes’ courting behavior is mostly audit…
View article: Recommendations to Develop, Distribute and Market Sonification Apps
Recommendations to Develop, Distribute and Market Sonification Apps Open
After decades of research, sonification is still rarely adopted in consumer electronics, software and user interfaces. Outside the science and arts scenes the term sonification seems not well known to the public. As a means of science comm…
View article: The Antenna Base Plays a Crucial Role in Mosquito Courtship Behavior
The Antenna Base Plays a Crucial Role in Mosquito Courtship Behavior Open
Mosquitoes are vectors of diseases like malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, chikungunya and Zika. For mosquito control it is crucial to understand their hearing system, as mosquitoes' courting behavior is mostly auditory. Many nonlinear c…
View article: The CURAT Sonification Game: Gamification for Remote Sonification Evaluation
The CURAT Sonification Game: Gamification for Remote Sonification Evaluation Open
As sonification is supposed to communicate information to users, experimental evaluation of the subjective appropriateness and effectiveness of the sonification design is often desired and sometimes indispensable. Experiments in the labora…
View article: The CURAT Sonification Game: Gamification for Remote Sonification Evaluation
The CURAT Sonification Game: Gamification for Remote Sonification Evaluation Open
As sonification is supposed to communicate information to users, experimental evaluation of the subjective appropriateness and effectiveness of the sonification design is often desired and sometimes indispensable. Experiments in the labora…
View article: Tiltification - An Accessible App to Popularize Sonification
Tiltification - An Accessible App to Popularize Sonification Open
This paper presents Tiltification, a multi modal spirit level application for smartphones. The non-profit app was produced by students in the master project “Sonification Apps” in winter term 2020/21 at the University of Bremen to learn ho…
View article: Tiltification — An Accessible App to Popularize Sonification
Tiltification — An Accessible App to Popularize Sonification Open
This paper presents Tiltification, a multi modal spirit level application for smartphones. The non-profit app was produced by students in the master project “Sonification Apps” in winter term 2020/21 at the University of Bremen…
View article: Psychoakustische Sonifikation zur Navigation in bildgeführter Chirurgie
Psychoakustische Sonifikation zur Navigation in bildgeführter Chirurgie Open
Sonification is the systematic transformation of data to sound. Sonification is a means to communicate information, to support navigation, or to explore data. In a multi-disciplinary research project we develop a psychoacoustically-motivat…
View article: Spatial Sound Impression and Precise Localization by Psychoacoustic Sound Field Synthesis
Spatial Sound Impression and Precise Localization by Psychoacoustic Sound Field Synthesis Open
In this paper a psychoacoustic sound field synthesis (pSFS) system for musical applications is presented.It recreates the radiation patterns of musical instruments for an extended listening area.For this purpose several psychoacoustic effe…
View article: Microphone and Loudspeaker Array Signal Processing Steps towards a “Radiation Keyboard” for Authentic Samplers
Microphone and Loudspeaker Array Signal Processing Steps towards a “Radiation Keyboard” for Authentic Samplers Open
To date electric pianos and samplers tend to concentrate on authenticity in terms of temporal and spectral aspects of sound. However, they barely recreate the original sound radiation characteristics, which contribute to the perception of …