[BlindRUG] [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Re: ggplot for sound

[Robin Williams]

Hello,

We are interested in developing the sonify package further. What additional flexibility would people like to see?

Best,
Robin

From: BlindRUG <blindrug-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Olivia Shaw via BlindRUG
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Subject: [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Re: [BlindRUG] ggplot for sound

Hello,

This sounds like an intriguing use case. I can think of a few cases where this might be useful, particularly if analyzing a large amount of data. Perhaps using specific areas of the stereo output for specific clusters of data?

-Olivia

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Subject: [BlindRUG] ggplot for sound

Dear everybody,

You may have heard of 'ggplot', a plotting engine in R that maps data
properties onto visual dimensions such as location, color, or size.

On Twitter today, somebody had a random idea: perhaps it's possible to
design something similar, but mapping data properties onto auditive
dimensions. The example they gave was:

    ggplot(mtcars) +

    geom_ping(aes(stereo_position = mpg, pitch = wt), sound = 'waterdrop') +

    scale_pitch_continuous(min = 'middle-c', max = 'middle-c + 2 octaves')

This would specify a "auditive plot" based on the mtcars dataset, adding
an element called "ping", mapping stereo position to the 'mpg' variable
and mapping pitch to the 'weight' variable, using a sound called
'waterdrop', and specifying the scale to use for the pitch.

This specific example may be very stupid/impractical, but it 'felt' like
they might be on to something.

But I have no experience whatsoever with this. There is of course the
'sonify' package, but a ggplot-like implementation would provide much
more freedom.

Would something like that be worthwhile to explore further?

Or is this just not useful at all in practice?

Kind regards,

Gjalt-Jorn



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