An Interface for Live Interactive Sonification

Sonification is generally considered in a statistical data analysis context. This research discusses the development of an interface for live control of sonification – for controlling and altering sonifications over the course of their playback. This is designed primarily with real-time sources in mind, rather than with static datasets, and is intended as a performative, live data-art creative activity. The interface enables the performer to use the interface as an instrument for iterative interpretations and variations of sonifications of multiple datastreams. Using the interface, the performer can alter the scale, granularity, timbre, hierarchy of elements, spatialisation, spectral filtering, key/modality, rhythmic distribution and register ‘on-the-fly’ to both perform data-generated music, and investigate data in a live exploratory, interactive manner.