Sonification scheme example - proposed in light of MPC study

 

This scheme consists in eight samples :

[ Welcome - Goodbye ] - [ FeedBack yes - Feedback no ] - [ Mail in - mail out ] - Alarm - Radio link

For each category, here are the specifications, as defined in chapter VII.

closing / opening opening opening program : welcome !
Polyphonic / monophonic polyphonic
Dynamic profile
Melodic profile & - generally up
Length Between 2 and 3 sec or > 4 sec.
jingle = long = musical = +/- complex
  closing closing program :
goodbye !
Polyphonic / monophonic polyphonic
Dynamic profile &
Melodic profile - generally down
Length Between 2 and 4 sec
feedbacks yes simple feedback "yes" (eg in games)
Polyphonic / monophonic monophonic
Dynamic profile
Melodic profile ---
Length less than 1sec.
High spectrum, simplicity and lightness
no simple feedback "no" (eg in games) low spectrum ~ (mel ) & (dyn )
Length ~0.25 sec, stable mel profile and low spectrum
  mail in
Polyphonic / monophonic monophonic
Dynamic profile
Melodic profile
Length 0.5 to 1 s.
Clear downhill profiles, although stable or uphill slight alarms are not bad
    mail out / message sent [0.5 sec., mel profile ] and [sample seeming to go away]
An image of something being thrown in the air - clearly uphill sample
  schedule alarm schedule alarm repetitive sounds - sounding as real life alarms
radio links incoming radio links for the moment, these two categories merge hi tech sounding synth like samples - length 1->2 sec
outgoing radio links

 

These specifications were folloed in order to obtain the following results :

 
scheme 1
scheme 2
scheme 3
welcome
goodbye
feedback yes
feedback no
mail in
mail out
alarm
radio link

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