Sounding out the System: Multidisciplinary Web Science Platforms for Creative Sonification

Abstract

In this paper, we present our initial findings in using digital methods to consider the way that different devices can connect to the same object. We take a more experimental view of the ways in which network data might be used in compositions to help us to move beyond traditional sonification techniques into more musical territories which enables us to start to understand the ways in which archival data and tools might be used as a creative response to the data and provide a more human way of engaging with the data archive. Such approaches can inform the ways in which future research platforms for Web Science can be developed in a truly multidisciplinary way which matches the needs of the wider research community and supports public engagement.