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strauss: Sonification Tools and Resources for Analysis Using Sound Synthesis

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Sonification, or conveying data using non-verbal audio, is a relatively niche but growing approach for presenting data across multiple specialist domains including astronomy, climate science, and beyond (Lenzi et al., 2021;Lindborg et al., 2023;Zanella et al., 2022).The strauss Python package aims to provide such a tool that builds upon previous approaches to provide a powerful means to explore different ways of expressing data, with fine control over the output audio and its format.strauss is a free, open source (FOSS) Python package, designed to allow flexible and effective sonification to be straightforwardly integrated into data workflows, in analogy to widely used visualisation packages.

Source: The Journal of Open Source Software

DOI: 10.21105/joss.07875

Authors: James W. Trayford, Samantha Youles, Chris Harrison, Rose Shepherd, Nicolas Bonne

Institutions: University of Portsmouth, Newcastle University

Language: English

Topic: Music Technology and Sound Studies

Subfield: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Science and Technology Facilities Council

Awards: An Ear to the Sky: Intuitive Exploration & Discovery in Astronomical Data using Sonification, NUdata - STFC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science