Looking for a place for Sonification

Sons de Silício and the Buzu installation

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https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2020.26078

Keywords:

Sonification, Big Data, Computer Music, Sound Art, Art‐Science

Abstract

This paper discusses the concept of sonification aplied to the Sons de Silício exhibition and more specifically to the design of Buzu, an audiovisual installation that generates an auditory image of the São Paulo bus transportation system. Buzu makes perceptible information of both the system’s planning and behavior during a particular week in October 2017. The work is an artistic outcome of the InterSCity project, an inter‐institutional research initiative concerning the Future Internet and the Smart Cities. Along with the discussion of the Buzu creative process we will examine mining and processing strategies related to the sonification of big data, data‐to‐sound mapping methods, auditory structure for displaying the material and the public exhibition of the work in the context of an artistic event.

Author Biographies

  • Julian Jaramillo Arango, Pontifical Xavierian University, Colombia

    Julián Jaramillo Arango is assistant professor at the Communication Program of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá Colombia. Julián has been posdoctoral research fellow at the São Paulo and Caldas University. In 2014 he completed tyhe PhD degree in Music from São Paulo University. His research topics includes Sound Studies, Computer Music, Media Studies and Audio Design.

  • Fernando Iazzetta, University of São Paulo, Brazil

    Fernando Iazzetta is a Brazilian composer and performer. He teaches music technology and electroacoustic composition at the University of São Paulo and is the director of NuSom – Research Centre on Sonology at the same university. His works have been presented in concerts and music festivals in Brazil and abroad. As a researcher he has been interested in the investigation of experimental forms of music and sound art. He also runs the record labels LAMI and BERRO at the University of São Paulo. He currently is a research fellow at CNPq, the Brazilian National Council of Scientific and Technological Development.

  • Crisitiano Figueiró, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil

    Cristiano Figueiró is a musician, teacher and researches interfaces between composition and interactive technologies with free software. Develops sound art creations in partnerships addressing different genres and techniques in the creative process. He works as a professor at UFBA in interdisciplinary bachelors with teaching and research at the intersections between development of open technologies and sound art production.

  • Esteban Viveros Astorga, University of São Paulo, Brazil

    Sound Artist, Educator and Researcher, directs his work towards the exploration of other means of sound and/or musical interaction using low-cost technological devices such as Raspberry Pi microcomputers, Arduino microcontrollers and various sensors for the development and emergence of sound and/or interactions in the context of electronic prototyping, data sonification and musical computation.

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2021-06-21

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No. 40 (2020): Thematic Session: Computing Performed Music

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“Looking for a Place for Sonification: Sons De Silício and the Buzu Installation”. 2021. Per Musi, no. 40 (June): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2020.26078.

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