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This exposition details the opening phase of new research between an experimental sound artist and an archaeologist, with a detailed examination of critical epistemological questions that have arisen from the beginning of this project. Both collaborating researchers are situated within hybrid specialisations. As the project unfolds, archaeo-chemical data is explored and animated through methods developed from intersections of data science and musical practice, resulting in performance and installation environments in which knowledge of material culture of the ancient past may be made present through listening. However, beyond a case study, this exposition points to how interdisciplinary artistic work produces results that have value outside of normative paradigms for any of the fields from which it is derived, while offering critical insight about those fields. This exposition is formed of these insights. Readers are introduced to the structure of the data, its relationship to the materiality of the artefacts described, the technological apparatus and compositional methodology through which the data is sonified, and the new materiality of the resulting artistic experiences. Sonification exists at a nexus of sound production and listening, interwoven with information. Meaning and interpretations arise from artistic decisions concerning sound composition and the context for listening to take place. Meanwhile, listening teaches us about data and about the physical and cultural spaces into which we project it. In this way, sonification is always already interdisciplinary.

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    • Using this Exposition and its Media
    • A Confrontation Between Materiality and Phenomenology
    • Introduction to the Researchers
    • Practical Challenges for Our Project
    • Context for the Data
    • Can We Listen Into the Lattice?
    • Mapping Sounds in Space With IKO
    • Design, Mapping, and Resynthesis: From Molecules to Sounds
    • Extralude: Taking a Walk Though Information-as-Sound
    • Composition and Critical Observations
    • Next Steps
    • Acknowledgements and References
    • Jorge Boehringer
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    This exposition details the opening phase of new research between an experimental sound artist and an archaeologist, with a detailed examination of critical epistemological questions that have arisen from the beginning of this project. Both collaborating researchers are situated within hybrid specialisations. As the project unfolds, archaeo-chemical data is explored and animated through methods developed from intersections of data science and musical practice, resulting in performance and installation environments in which knowledge of material culture of the ancient past may be made present through listening. However, beyond a case study, this exposition points to how interdisciplinary artistic work produces results that have value outside of normative paradigms for any of the fields from which it is derived, while offering critical insight about those fields. This exposition is formed of these insights. Readers are introduced to the structure of the data, its relationship to the materiality of the artefacts described, the technological apparatus and compositional methodology through which the data is sonified, and the new materiality of the resulting artistic experiences. Sonification exists at a nexus of sound production and listening, interwoven with information. Meaning and interpretations arise from artistic decisions concerning sound composition and the context for listening to take place. Meanwhile, listening teaches us about data and about the physical and cultural spaces into which we project it. In this way, sonification is always already interdisciplinary.
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Using This Exposition and its Media 


A Confrontation Between Materiality and Phenomenology


Introduction to the Researchers

 

Practical Challenges For Our Project

 

Context for the Data

 

Can We Listen Into the Lattice?

 

Mapping Sounds In Space with IKO

 

Design, Mapping, and Resynthesis:

From Molecules to Sounds

 

Extralude: Taking a Walk Through

Information-As-Sound


Composition and Critical Observations

 

Next Steps

 

Acknowledgements and References

Listening Into the Lattice:


Exposing Negotiation Between Scientific and Artistic Practices

in the Initial Development of an Archaeological Sonification Project

 

Dr. Jorge W. Boehringer