By Stuart Memo
http://stuartmemo.com/qwerty-hancock/
mechanical hearing aids
Not necessarily the old-school ear trumpets, but mechanical filters and movable sound directing shells.
ultrasonic transducers
Convert and filter sound in an out of human hearing range
Words that last
Ancient words and a web graphic to display them.
By Wilson Andrews and David Brown at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/words-that-last/
Parameter mapping sonification
The Sonification Handbook. Chapter 15.
by Florian Grond and Jonathan Berger
This chapter, saddled with an unfortunate acronym, talks about how to map data to sound. Starting with a boiling water kettle.
http://sonification.de/handbook/index.php/chapters/chapter15/
Solving equation of a hit film script
Using statistics to reduce risk and repeat winning formulas.
By Brooks Barnes in the New York Times
Sonification abstraite / sonification concrete
A relationship between sonification and music.
By Paul Vickers and Bennett Hogg
http://dev.icad.org/Proceedings/2006/VickersHogg2006.pdf
Ruth Brown
A master of the half-page.
at newser.com
http://www.newser.com/user/83588954/1/ruth-brown.html?type=stories
edit 4/2015: It looks like Ruth stopped writing for Newser some time in 2013.
Creating New Linux Users and Login Keys on Amazon EC2
By Jay Andrew Allen, at codingthis.com
http://codingthis.com/platforms/creating-new-linux-users-and-login-keys-on-amazon-ec2/
Unsolved sonification problems
Other than a worldwide shortage of silence…
- Trucks that beep while in reverse
- Medical devices with alarms which are increasingly ignored
- Anxiety inducing device sounds (email/phone alerts)
- Talking gas pumps