Mike Winters: What do we feel
when we listen to Sonifications
with Scot Gresham-Lancaster / 12 May 2014 / 26:31
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Presented by
Strange Data LLC.
Mike Winters
Composer & Theorist
Emotions and
Sonification
Mike Winters: What do we feel
To quote Mike Winters from the “Project Description” of his Masters Thesis “Strategies for Continuous Auditory Display of Arousal and Valence” in which he states “Sound is capable of profound emotional experiences: one need look no further than the importance of music in film. Sonification is field of research interested in the use of sound to convey information in general, but what happens when the data is emotion?” This discussion scratches the surface of this research and starts the dialog regarding the fuzzy intersection of Art and Science that is presented when researching the techniques associated with affective computing when using data to drive emotional content systematically.
Emotion Driven Audio from IDMIL on Vimeo.
Bio: Mike Winters earned his PhD in the School of Music, in the Music Technology PhD program, in 2020. Mike's primary advisor in Music was Prof. Grace Leslie. Prof. Walker was co-advisor. Mike's research looked at the emotional and neurophysiological affects of music on the listener. Mike also has experience in music composition, sonification, musical robotics, physics, mathematics, perception, cognition and design. Mike is currently a researcher and consultant.
Emotion Sonification Project Webpage
Our Guests
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Pauline Oliveros founder of the Deep Listening Institute -
Jordan Wirfs-Brock Radio journalist & sonification -
Brian Foo The Data Driven DJ -
Clarence Barlow Data Composer Extrordanaire -
Dolores Catherino Poly Chromatic Music -
Ivanna Muse Cambridge Creation Lab -
Roger Dean musician, biochemist and cognitive scientist -
Konstantinos Vasilakos Sonification, gestural improvisation, and live coding -
Garth Paine Composer - Acoustic Ecology Lab -
Chris Chafe Sonification Research CCRMA -
Martin Keary Muse and Sonification Critic -
Mark Ballora The voice of real sonification -
Carla Scaletti The Data Driven DJ -
Gregory Kramer Early Sonification Artist -
Bert Barten The Talking Trees Project -
Paul Vickers Sonification and Stand Up Comedy -
L. Alexis Emelianoff Sonification of Electrical Field -
David Worrall Sonification guru -
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli Composer - Material Science Physicist -
Sophia Roosth The Art of the Senses -
Mike Winters Sonification and Emotion
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Florian Grond Sonification, Cognition and Interaction -
Margaret Schedele Composer - Art Science collaborator -
Andrew Blanton Percussion and sonification
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