[Muwisys] Call for submissions - "Organised Sound" - thematic issue on Sonification

[Leigh Landy]

Organised Sound: An International Journal of Music and Technology
Call for submissions
 
Volume 19, Number 1 (publication date April 2014)
 
Issue thematic title: Sonification
Guest editors: Margaret Schedel (gem at schedel.net) and
David Worrall (worrall at avatar.com.au)
 
Submission deadline: 1 June 2013
 
 
In recent years auditory display, sonification and audification have entered
the public consciousness. Examples of effective data sonification can be
found in research fields as diverse as seismology, traffic control and
biomedicine. The recent publication of The Sonification Handbook[1] <#_ftn1>
provides a contemporary introduction to an interdisciplinary practice that
frequently crosses the boundaries between sound design, music composition,
cognitive psychology and, more recently, analytical and computational
musicology. 
 
Many of the sonifications covered in the popular press reduce the data by
forcing the sonification to conform to western scales and regular rhythm.
For instance the BBC covered the sound of the newly discovered Higgs Boson
particle (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18785232) which is a
simple piano solo. Timbral, or electoacoustic music can perhaps represent
the data much more accurately.
 
This current themed issue of Organised Sound aims to explore and document
current musical practices and innovations in this new sonic space. Most
publications have focused on how sonification is performed or why
sonification works. However, whenever there is mapping from one kind of data
to another, aesthetic decisions are being made. Have composers been
sonifying all along? If so, have audiences been listening as if that's the
case? How can electroacoustic music studies advance this interdisciplinary
field?
 
Topics for investigation might include, but are not restricted to:
€ Aesthetic differences between auditory display, sonification and
audification and (electroacoustic) music
€ Conceptual/perceptual frameworks for current and continuing research
€ Music cognition, sonification and embodiment
€ Aesthetics/philosophy of sonification
€ Is sound design sonification?
€ Can data be music? Can music be data?
€ New tools and techniques that are being used and explored (e.g., from an
aesthetic viewpoint)
€ Emerging hybrid art forms
€ Challenges in combining science and art, e.g., finding a common language
€ Balancing artistic desires with clarity of data presentation
€ Composition, performance, reception of works involving data sets
 
 
As always, submissions related to the theme are encouraged; however, those
that fall outside the scope of this theme are always welcome. Submitted
papers may be supported with audio and audio-visual material, which, if
selected will be presented as part of the journal's annual DVD-ROM and
online.   
  
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 June 2013
 
SUBMISSION FORMAT
 
Notes for Contributors and further details can be obtained from the inside
back cover of published issues of Organised Sound or at the following url:
 
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayMoreInfo?jid=OSO&type=ifc
<http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayMoreInfo?jid=OSO&amp;type=ifc>
(and download the pdf)
 
Properly formatted email submissions and general queries should be sent to:
os at dmu.ac.uk <mailto:os at dmu.ac.uk> , not to the guest editors.
 
Hard copy of articles and images (only when requested) and other material
(e.g., sound and audio-visual files, etc. ­ normally max. 15¹ sound files or
8¹ movie files) should be submitted to:
 
             Prof. Leigh Landy
             Organised Sound
               Clephan Building
               De Montfort University
             Leicester LE1 9BH, UK.
 
Editor: Leigh Landy
Associate Editors: Ross Kirk and Richard Orton
Regional Editors: Joel Chadabe, Ricardo Dal Farra, Lonce Wyse, Eduardo
Miranda, Jøran Rudi, Margaret Schedel, Barry Truax, Ian Whalley, David
Worrall
International Editorial Board: Marc Battier, Hannah Bosma, Alessandro
Cipriani, Simon Emmerson, Kenneth Fields, Rajmil Fischman, Rosemary
Mountain, Tony Myatt, Jean-Claude Risset, Mary Simoni, Martin Supper
 
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[1]   http://sonification.de/handbook/