Sonification
mapping information or data into non-speech sound
Further Reading
stAllio!’s Editing Images with Sound Software Tutorial
Shawn Graham, Tutorial on Sonification
Sounds of Science, the Mystique of Sonification
Mark Sample, Notes toward a Deformed Humanities
The deformed work is the end, not the means to the end. The Deformed Humanities is all around us. I’m only giving it a name. Mashups, remixes, fan fiction, they are all made by breaking things, with little regard for preserving the original whole.
Daniel Temkin, Glitch && Human/Computer Interaction
Precedents
Andy Baio’s experiments of converting original MP3s to MIDI, and back again to MP3s
Jordan Hochenbaum and Owen Vallis’s “Weather Report” which translates weather data into sound