[community] Astrophysicist who is blind uses sonification in her work
Taliesin Love Smith
ts14hh at student.ocadu.ca
Tue Feb 16 18:03:49 UTC 2016
I don't think I can get it live in St. John's, but I will be looking for
this talk after TED. Thanks for sharing.
Taliesin
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Tara Robertson <trobertson at langara.ca>
wrote:
> This person, Wanda Diaz Merced, Sonic astrophysicist, is speaking today at
> TED in the 11am-12:45 (Pacific) timeslot. It's being streamed live at many
> public and academic libraries (list of places for Vancouver:
> http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2016/02/watch-live-stream-ted-2016-vancouver-conference/
> )
>
> While searching for ways to study stellar radiation without relying on
> sight, Wanda Diaz Merced has developed a way to represent complex data
> about our universe as sound.
>
> When Wanda Diaz Merced lost her sight in her early 20s, her dreams of
> studying stars in the visually oriented scientific world suffered a major
> setback -- until she discovered “sonification,” a way to turn huge data
> sets into audible sound using pitch, duration and other properties. Merced
> realized that she could use her ears to detect patterns in stellar radio
> data, and could uncover connections obscured by graphs and visual
> representation.
>
> While working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Merced’s
> sonifications inspired musician and researcher Gerhard Sonnert to create
> X-Ray Hydra, an album of oddly jazzy music based on her audio
> representations.
>
> https://conferences.ted.com/TED2016/program/speakers.php#2906
>
> Cheers,
> Tara
>
>
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> work
>
> Really interesting story (forwarded to me via @tararobertson in BC) about
> a space scientist who’s been using sonification around astronomical data.
>
> http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.ca/2015/03/the-normalcy-curve.html
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