2021/09/30 by Victor Schetinger, Schetinger, Victor, Ignacio Pérez-Messina +5 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) #Data Visualization and Analytics #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Innovative Human-Technology Interaction #Multimedia (cs.MM) #Music Technology and Sound Studies #Sound (cs.SD) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2109.14992
openalex publication_date 2021/09/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this work, we report on the results and lessons learned from different disciplines while researching the loosely-defined problem of hearing a city. We present Xenakis, a tool for the musification of urban data, which is able to capture some features of a city's topology through the distribution of street orientations, and turn it into a (very) small piece of music, a loop, which can be used as building block for compositions. Besides providing complementary visual and auditory channels to interface with this data, we also allow the piping of midi signals to other applications. This concept was developed by visualization researchers collaborating with musicians using design study methodologies in an open-ended way. Our results include musical tracks, and we take advantage of the scope of alt.VIS to communicate our research in a sincere, humorous, and engaging format.