ICAD

This page contains links to presentations I have made at the International Conference on Auditory Display in the years 2001 – 2008. Below I describe a bit of background of the projects that led to these formal presentations:

CFD

I chose computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as my first sonification project. My main motivation for choosing this area is that I know it well. I had completed a PhD at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London in 1984 which consisted largely of analyzing the complex fluid flow inside an oil-cooled electric power transformer. I did this with help of A.D. Gosman, a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. David went on to develop the commercial CFD code STAR-CD. I ended up working for one of the competitors (FLUENT) after graduation from Imperial. I left FLUENT in early 1999 to return to my musical roots and explore its connections with engineering. The Master of Arts program in Electro-Acoustic Music at Dartmouth College was an excellent environment to pursue this goal. Eric Lyon suggested that I look into sonification, Larry Polansky guided my thesis work and Jon Appleton was incredibly generous with encouragement and logistical support every step of the way.

The Sonification of Numerical Fluid Flow Simulations, 2001

Achorripsis: A Sonification of Probability Distributions, 2002

Using Multi-Channel Spatialization in Sonification: A Case Study with Meteorological Data, 2003

MarketBuzz: A Sonification of Real Time Financial Market Data, 2004

Auditory Graphs of Real-Time Data, 2005

Monitoring Real-Time Data: A Sonification Approach, 2006

Sonification of a Complex Computational Process: Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2008