Translations:Sonification in practice/55/en

A simple example would be to “sound-paint” a gray cloud using low-frequency noise and a white cloud using high-frequency noise. Another example would be a class of students representing the sound of rain by randomly tapping their fingernails on their desks. Another example that relates composition with music representation is the leitmotif. A leitmotif is a short melodic theme consisting of a few specific notes which, as a unique motif (pattern), is associated with a character in an opera and played by the orchestra, particularly in Wagner’s operas. A character’s leitmotif brings the character to mind throughout the entire work, whether the character is on stage or not! Translating this to a data series, such a leitmotif could replace the expected sound of a prominent low or high value (or a specific value or even a range of values) without having any coherence or arising from the neighboring data.