LoadFlow Audification

Florian Dombois, Tony Stockman, Katharina Vogt, Susanne Schweizer, Chr. Fleck, Hipp, Julian Rohrhuber, Till Bovermann

Initial Ideas

*Sonify Differences from day to day

*Sonify tendencies

*comparing different columns

*looping data for rhythmical detection

*different rhythms (day / hour / week)

*audification by windowing

*fm-modulating

*using 50 Hz with overtones

*make it an orchestra

*summing all signals

*musical instruments

Experimenting

Audification *hear all different data channels

*adjust range to one day

*hear klick on change to christmas

*hear different channels

*make it into two channels

Evaluation

Did it work?

• yes.
• We hear differences from day to day.
• We hear the change between christmas and non-christmas days.

What's next?

Getting more detailed / longer data sets e.g. christmas, easter ;-) An auditory display for the cursor position

Reflection

• Farmers do not have any Christmas.