AES Section Meeting Reports

Pennsylvania State University - November 10, 2011

Meeting Topic: TED Talk on Sonification

Moderator Name: Christopher Payne

Speaker Name: Mark Ballora - Associate Professor of Music Technology at Pennsylvania State University

Other business or activities at the meeting: Announcement for 131st Audio Engineering Society Conference

Meeting Location: 214 Applied Science Building, University Park, PA 16802

Summary

The Associate Professor of Music Technology, Mark Ballora, presented some of his sonification work from his sabbatical in the Center for Network-Centric Cognition and Information Fusion in the IST department of Pennsylvania State University. During this event, he gave a detailed introduction on the field of sonification and presented his work of representing a sonification piece of our solar system. His representation of sounds were based on the resonant frequencies and spatial characteristics of each atmospheric entity and space, which, when combined together, created a harmonic track of audio. The talk was also given as a TED talk series which is hosted online under the category of sonification.

Written By: Christopher Payne

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