Sonification: How Everyday Physical Activity “Sounds”?
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The sonification of physical activity, including the everyday variety, is an intensively
developing sphere of scholarly research. The present project is concentrated on a complex
way of using algorithmic music with the availability of the subject-wise and the compositional
structures – musification. The basis is comprised of means of parametric sonification of data –
the most broadly used technique, transforming the multidimensional space of the data in sound.
The various meanings of physical activities obtained with the use of the Xiaomi Mi Band activity
during the process of studies of sonification as a practical and creative domain of science and
art made it possible to carry out a few experiments carrying the aim of sounding out the data of
the fitness bracelet in such a way as to depict the everyday activities of several users within the
limits of the resulting musical composition. Various means of transformation of the meanings
of the fitness bracelet into musical parameters were examined within the frameworks of this
research work. Approbation was made of several variants of parametrical mappings transforming
the four-dimensional space of the meanings of the tracker of activities into a multidimensional
space of musical parameters – from the different variants of the four-dimensional to the sixdimensional.
The latter approach turned out to be the most convincing from the perspective of
the aims set forth in the present project.
Keywords: sonification, parametrical mapping, interactivity, sonar reflection of information.
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