Sonification and Music: Science meets Art. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Sonification and Music: Science meets Art. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)
- Main Title:
- Sonification and Music: Science meets Art
- Authors:
- Devroop, Chatradari 'Chats'
Titlestad, Michael - Abstract:
- Abstract : The opposites, science and the arts, have always enjoyed a relationship. Recently, this relationship has been expressed in sonification, a branch of science seeking to add sound to data, giving data music-like intelligibility. Scientists believe that our aural capabilities are a potentially rich source of data that could assist in problem solving. In 2020, a sonic realization of the coronavirus was generated using its spike protein data. This sonification endeavoured to probe the coronavirus aurally. However, the creators of this sonified scientific probe are now claiming that their experiment is also a music composition. We examine this claim. This paper is underpinned by the conviction that not all sound is music. Music cannot represent anything other than itself because our understanding of music is always via allegory. Therefore, the efforts of Buehler, it is argued, are misdirected and trivial when placed in the stressed socio-political context of COVID-19.
- Is Part Of:
- English studies in Africa. Volume 64:Issue 1/2(2021)
- Journal:
- English studies in Africa
- Issue:
- Volume 64:Issue 1/2(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 64, Issue 1/2 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 64
- Issue:
- 1/2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0064-NaN-0000
- Page Start:
- 181
- Page End:
- 191
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01-02
- Subjects:
- sonification -- coronavirus -- music -- science -- art -- desonification -- aesthetics
English literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
English language -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals
English language -- Africa -- Periodicals
English literature -- Periodicals
American literature -- Periodicals
American literature
English language
English language -- Study and teaching
English literature
Africa
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Periodicals
Electronic journals
420 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/reia20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/00138398.2021.1969120 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0013-8398
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