Sonification and the Digital Divide
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Roddy, Stephen, Sonification and the Digital Divide, Digital Materials, National University of Ireland, Galway, 21-22 May, 2015Download Item:
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Historically, ‘Western Culture’ has been predominantly visuocentric tending to treat sound
as an immaterial and secondary phenomenon. The roots of this bias can be traced back
through the works of Kant and Hume to classical Pythagorean thought that reduces sound
to the sum of its mathematical and mechanical components. Sound was often thought of as
something material objects do, rather than a material object in and of itself. With the
advent of 20th century analog recording technologies, sound for the first time became
disembodied from its sources and worthy of treatment as a material in and of itself. This has
led to interesting developments in the arts and sciences. Thanks to modern developments in
digital technology sound has become a tangible, malleable material. Sonification is the
process of representing computer data using digital sound. It is used in situations where the
visual medium comes up short.
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