Re-Sonification of Geographic Sound Activity using Acoustic, Semantic and Social Information

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2010-06Author
Fink, Alex
Mechtley, Brandon
Wichern, Gordon
Liu, Jinru
Thornburg, Harvey
Spanias, Andreas
Coleman, Grisha
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Sonic representations of spaces have emerged as a means to capture
and present the activity that conventional representations, such
as maps, do not encapsulate. Therefore, to convey the activity
information of regions, both large and small, we use sounds and
information provided by regional communities in the automated
design of soundscapes to re-sonify geographic sound activity. To
quantify this community knowledge, we have developed an ontological
framework to determine the importance of sound and concepts
to one another using acoustic, semantic, and social information.
This framework is then used in the automated design of
a generative soundscape model purposed to identify and re-sonify
sounds that impart relevant information about a geographic region.
Furthermore, we are developing a social networking website to facilitate
the collection and re-sonification of sounds and data.