Musart: musical audio transfer function real-time toolkit. a musical approach to sonification

This work describes the design and implementation of a soni-fication toolkit. MUSART (MUSical Audio transfer function Real-time Toolkit) is a sonification toolkit which produces musical sound maps that are played in real-time. Register, pitch, timbre, chords, duration, silence, loudness, beats, and panning are the musical concepts used to create melodic sound maps. Univariate and mul-tivariate data sets are sonified using various sound parameter com-binations and music tracks. Users have the flexibility to create personalized auditory displays by mapping each data dimension of a data set to one or more sound parameters. MUSART is designed to be flexible so that it can be used with many applications. In this work, we use musical auditory maps to explore seismic volumes used for detecting areas for drilling oil. 1.