Dear all,

i'd like to invite you to take part in a new study for the visualization of textural sounds, part of a research project at the Austrian Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI).

http://grrrr.org/test/texvis

The goal is to design musical interfaces to intuitively browse large collections of textural sounds. Its theoretical foundation lies in multi-model interaction, which exploits interrelations between the different human senses.

It takes only a couple of minutes (typically 5 minutes for 30 sounds, 15 minutes for all 100).
I'll present some results at the DAFx satellite workshop "Versatile Sound Models for Interaction in Audio-Graphic Virtual Environments" on Friday.

The online form is based on HTML5, it should work properly on Firefox, Chrome or Safari web browsers. IE9 might work, but is untested.

Thanks for your participation!
all the best,
Thomas Grill, Vienna, Austria

Welcome!
Thank you for your interest in this research project. It tries to devise adequate graphical representations of sound textures. The ultimate goal is to build musical interfaces that enable quick access to sounds in large archives.

You will be asked to associate some randomly chosen textural sounds to various graphical representations. Proceed simply in an intuitive manner. If possible you should use headphones or good-quality loudspeakers (at max. 2 meters distance).

The form is available in German or English language ¨C please choose the language you are most comfortable with. You can pause and continue the process as often as you want ¨C grading one sound takes only a few seconds.
For statistical reasons you should grade at least 30 sounds ¨C in total there are 100 sounds available.

Many thanks for your contribution!

Thomas Grill (OFAI)

Willkommen!
Danke f¨¹r Ihr Interesse an diesem Forschungsprojekt. Dieses versucht geeignete grafische Entsprechungen f¨¹r Klangtexturen zu finden. Letztendlich soll dies zur Entwicklung von musikalischen Interfaces f¨¹hren, die raschen Zugriff auf Kl?nge in gro?en Bibliotheken erlauben.

Sie werden in der Folge aufgefordert, texturhafte Kl?nge verschiedenen grafischen Repr?sentationen zuzuordnen. Gehen Sie dabei einfach intuitiv vor. Wenn m?glich sollten Sie Kopfh?rer oder Lautsprecher guter Qualit?t (in max. 2 Metern Entfernung) verwenden.

Dieser Fragebogen ist in deutscher oder englischer Sprache verf¨¹gbar ¨C w?hlen Sie die Sprache, die Ihnen am vertrautesten ist. Sie k?nnen den Bewertungsvorgang so oft unterbrechen und fortsetzen, wie Sie m?chten ¨C die Bewertung eines Klangs dauert wenige Sekunden.
Aus statistischen Gr¨¹nden sollten Sie mindestens 30 Kl?nge bewerten ¨C insgesamt sind 100 Kl?nge vorhanden.

Vielen Dank f¨¹r Ihren Beitrag!

Thomas Grill (OFAI)