# Sonification Abstraite/Sonification Concr`ete: An 'Aesthetic Perspective Space' for Classifying Auditory Displays in the Ars Musica Domain

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.5426 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1311.5426/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 21 Nov 2013.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Tokyo Kion-On: Query-Based Generative Sonification of Atmospheric Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.02494/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper discusses aesthetic issues of sonifications and the relationships between sonification (ars informatica) and music & sound art (ars musica). It is posited that many sonifications have suffered from poor internal ecological validity which makes listening more difficult, thereby resulting in poorer data extraction and inference on the part of the listener. Lessons are drawn from the electroacoustic music and musique concr`ete communities as it is argued that it is not instructive to distinguish between sonifications and music/sound art.