PROGRAM
FULL PROGRAM
KEYNOTES
EMPAC THEATER
TUESDAY, 11AM
BRAXTON BOREN
Associate Professor, Audio Technology Degrees
Braxton Boren is Associate Professor of Audio Technology at American University, where he joined the faculty in Fall 2017. He received a BA in Music Technology from Northwestern University, where he was the valedictorian of the Bienen School of Music in 2008. He was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to attend the University of Cambridge to research computational acoustic simulation, where he earned his MPhil in Physics in 2010. He completed his Ph.D. in Music Technology at MARL, the Music and Audio Research Laboratory at New York University in 2014. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher working in spatial audio over headphones at Princeton University’s 3D Audio and Applied Acoustics Laboratory from 2014-2016. He taught high school Geometry from 2016-2017 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, NY.
Braxton’s research focuses on using computer simulation to allow performers to perform and record in virtual spaces that no longer exist. He has performed extensive simulations of speeches from ancient history to estimate crowd sizes and the range of unamplified voices in the past, including simulations of George Whitefield, Julius Caesar, and Elizabeth I. In addition, he has simulated the role of historical acoustics in the music of Gabrieli, Monteverdi, and J.S. Bach. He is currently working on projects analyzing the acoustics of South Indian Hindu temples as well as the earliest churches of the Protestant Reformation.
WEDNESDAY, 11AM
ERIC LYON
Professor of Practice
Eric Lyon is a composer and audio researcher. His software includes “FFTease” and “LyonPotpourri.” He is the author of “Designing Audio Objects for Max/MSP and Pd,” and “Automated Sound Design,” a book that presents technical processes for implementing oracular synthesis and sound processing across a wide range of audio applications. Lyon’s work has been recognized with a ZKM Giga-Hertz prize, MUSLAB award, the League ISCM World Music Days competition, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Lyon is Professor of Practice in the School of Performing Arts at Virginia Tech, and is a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology.
PAPERS
EMPAC THEATER
TUESDAY 9-11AM
PAPER SESSION 1: ASTRONOMY
SESSION CHAIR: LOUISE HARRIS
Accessible Sonification of Total Solar Eclipse 2024: Accessible Map and Multimodal Virtual Reality Experience
Auralee Walmer, Nicolette Cash, Wenqing Yin, Teairis Majors, Brandon Biggs, and Bruce Walker
Auralization of Magnetic Multiscale Satellite Data: Toward Integrated Audification in Space Science*
Kristina Collins, Robert Alexander, Jaye Verniero, and Robert Candey
Spin-Wave Voices: Sonification of Nanoscale Spin Waves as an Engagement and Possible Research Tool
Santa Pile, Oleg Lesota, Silvan David Peter, Christina Humer, and Martin Gasser
Schizosymphony: \\ From Schizophrenia Brainwaves to Narrative Soundscapes*
Hyunkyung Shin, Xinhui Li, Zening Fu, and Henrik von Coler
TUESDAY 1:30-3PM
PAPER SESSION 2: ML + ANALYTICS
SESSION CHAIR: MICHAEL NEES
SOMson — Sonification of Multidimensional Data in Kohonen Maps
Simon Linke and Tim Ziemer
Interpreting Data through Creative Audiovisualisation (IDCA)*
Louise Harris
Multidimensional cross-correlated datasets extraction from reference audio files*
Marco Cernuto and Renato Messina
Artificial Life in Integrated Interactive Sonification and Visualisation: Initial Experiments with a Python-Based Workflow
Jack Armitage, Miguel Crozzoli, and Daniel Jones
TUESDAY, 3–5PM
PAPER SESSION 3: LIFE + GEOSCIENCES
SESSION CHAIR: SANTA PILE
Iterative Design of Auditory Displays Involving Data Sonifications and Authentic Ocean Data
Jon Bellona, Huaigu Li, Jessica Roberts, Amy Bower, and Leslie Smith
Audio-visual Analytics of Geoscientific Data with Immersive Interactions
Shamima Yasmin and Chowdhury Qaizar Jamal
Sounding Numbers: The Sonification Object as an Interface in “I am the Ocean”
Miguel Crozzoli and Thor Magnusson
DNA Sonification Using 8-Channel Audio for Data Analyses and Music Composition
Mark Temple
Cenotaph and Elegy of Contagion: Collective Immersion of National-Level COVID-19 Fatality Data in the United States
M. Jerry Huang, Stephanie Loveless, and Jonas Braasch
WEDNESDAY, 9–11AM
PAPER SESSION 4: TOOLS, GAMES + INTERACTION
SESSION CHAIR: SIMON LINKE
Results from the CURAT Sonification Game
Tim Ziemer
Accessibility of Shooting Task for Blind and Visually Impaired: A Sonification Method Comparison
Florian Apavou, Tifanie Bouchara, and Patrick Bourdot
Pitch is More Efficient than Delay to Induce Weight Perception in Augmented Reality
Louis Lafuma, Guillaume Bouyer, Olivier Goguel, and Jean-Yves Didier
Temporal Imagery for Aural Diversity: Auditory Displays as Artifacts of Sonic Art Encounters Between Unaided and Cochlear Implant Listeners
Sharath Chandra Ramakrishnan
Adapting Audio Mixing Principles and Tools to Parameter Mapping Sonification Design
Prithvi Kantan, Sofia Dahl, and Erika G. Spaich
WEDNESDAY, 1:30–3PM
PAPER SESSION 5: SPATIALIZATION
SESSION CHAIR: FLORIAN APAVOU
Influence of Recording Technique and Ensemble Size on Apparent Source Width
Renzhi Guo and Jonas Braasch
CoRoT Light Curve Ambsonics/Binaural Sonification
Adrian Garcia Riber and Francisco Serradilla Garcia
Exploring Spatialization: A Method for Subjective Assessment of Soundscape Preference Using Immersive Environments
Milena Jonas Bem, Samuel Chabot, and Jonas Braasch
A Spatial Audio System for Co-Located Multi-Participant Extended Reality Experiences*
Yi Wu, Agnieszka Roginska, Keru Wang, Zhu Wang, and Ken Perlin
FRIDAY, 9AM–12PM
PAPER SESSION 6: SUSTAINABILITY
SESSION CHAIR: DEREK BROCK
AmbiSynth – Monitoring Room Climate with Generative Modular Synthesizers
Markus Berger and Joern Ploennigs
Birdsongification: Contextual and Complementary Sonification for Biology Visualization
Elias Elmquist, Malin Ejdbo, Alexander Bock, David S. Thaler, Anders Ynnerman, and Niklas Rönnberg
Composing Music from Black Hole AGN Spectra
David Ibbett
Exploring the Acoustic Footprint of Tourism: Spatial Capture, Analysis, and Preliminary Evaluation of the Naxos’s Island Soundscape
Giorgos Dedousis, Konstantinos Bakogiannis, Emmanouil Lianis, and Areti Andreopoulou
*extended abstract
CONCERT
WEDNESDAY, 6-8PM
EMPAC THEATER
Figure and Ground
Jorge Boehringer
8-bit Petal
Territorio Prismático
L20rk Tweeter Community Ensemble
Participants, alphabetized (location at time of performance):
Rohin Batra (Virginia)
Ivica Ico Bukvic, Founder and Director (ICAD, EMPAC)
Uma Futoransky (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Gala Gonzalez (Virginia)
Justin Kerobo (Virginia)
Joaquin Montecino (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Lauti Sosa (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Caden Vandervort (Virginia)
Lane Wills (Virginia)
Sympoiesis: Homage to Pauline Oliveros
Michael Century, Zach Layton, and Chris Fisher-Lochhead
GUS
Louise Harris
The Hum
Balint Laczko
Daughter of the Stars
Brian Lindgren
Clusters
Spaced Images with Noise and Lines
Eric Lyon
The Sound of Missing Out
Edward Martin
A Body I Touched
Rosa Park
Sonification of Gene Expression
Mark Temple
INSTALLATIONS + DEMOS
THURSDAY, 11-12PM + 3:30-5PM
MEZZANINE
TRVE NORTHS
Jorge Boehringer
Accessible Sonification of Total Solar Eclipse 2024
Nicolette Cash, Wenqing Yin, Teairis Majors, Auralee Walmer and Bruce N. Walker
SoundObservation
Miku Fujimoto and Fushi Sano
Sound Scope Pad
Masatoshi Hamanaka
EMPAC THEATER
Stop-Wait-Go Time
Woohun Joo, Solvita Zarina and Ojars Krasts
EMPAC STUDIO 2
CIRCULATION OF PLACENESS
Woohun Joo and Kyuha Shim
Resilience in Color
Zeynep Özcan
WORKSHOPS
THURSDAY, 9-11AM
EMPAC THEATER
Exploring the Impulse Pattern Formulation as a Physically Motivated Sonication Framework
Simon Linke
EMPAC STUDIO 2
Developing New Models for Prosody and Expression in Augmentative Assistive Communication Devices
Robert Whalen
Real-Time Voice Mapping
Katherine Skovira
THURSDAY, 1:30-3:30PM
EMPAC THEATER
Hands-On Workshop on Creating Multimodal (Audio and Visual) Graphs Using the Highcharts Sonification Studio
Bruce N. Walker and Auralee Walmer