July 26 Design Crit Notes Energy Skate Park

Track Shape

• Idea - a feature which scans the track left to right and plays back tones based on the track.

  • You would hear two or more tones where there are loops or overlapping sections

  • this way you can "preview" the track easily

  • combine with spatial audio to give additional information

• Spatial audio

  • using stereo could be effective to understand loops - you can hear the sound going to one side, to the other, and then back again.

  • the web Text-to-Speech engine may not support spatial audio?

Descriptions

• Configurable verbosity: choose what gets read back

Sonification of Chart Data

• The example chart sonification MP3 contains variation in volume and beats

  • could make tracking the audio information a bit tricky because the overall volume changes to follow the trend in the data, but there's also volume differences in the sample loops themselves.

• Suggestion: see the chart authoring sonification for some results of research.