Alexandra Supper's research while affiliated with Maastricht University and other places
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Publications (10)
Lo-fi music is commonly associated with a recording aesthetic marked by an avoidance of state-of-the-art technologies and an inclusion of technical flaws, such as tape hiss and static. However, I argue that lo-fi music is not defined merely by the presence of such imperfections, but by a discourse which deliberately draws attention to them. Album l...
Sonification, the transformation of data into sound, is often argued to challenge the “visual culture” of science. Based on an analysis of rhetorical discourses as well as bodily practices within the sonification community, I show that the relationship between sonification and visual culture is in fact more complex and ambivalent: in publications a...
Dissertation defenses are ambiguous affairs, which mark both the end of a long process of doctoral education and the inauguration of a doctoral candidate into a body of experts. At Maastricht University (and other Dutch universities), the decision to award a doctoral degree is made on the basis of the written dissertation well before the defense, w...
A collaborative and creative piece about the influence of sound on memory and taste. Follow the link to access the article, sound files and photos
http://imaginativeethnography.org/soundings/sound-dish/
At the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to sonification and the use of non-speech sound to represent information, presenters make use of a variety of bodily skills and representations that appeal to the senses of their audience. In many established disciplines, the conventions that guide...
This article investigates the role of listening in the knowledge making practices of Western scientists, engineers, and physicians from the 1920s onwards. It does so by offering a two-dimensional typology of the modes of listening that they employ. Distinguishing between two dimensions allows us to make sense both of the purpose and of the ways in...
In recent years, sonification-the auditory display of data-has received increasing media attention and been presented as a solution to the challenges posed by large, complex datasets. By analyzing the development of the sonification research community, this article shows that specific historical configurations have led the community to concentrate...
In the past two decades, the sonification of scientific data - an auditory equivalent of data visualization in which data are turned into sounds - has become increasingly widespread, particularly as an artistic practice and as a means of popularizing science. Sonification is thus part of the recent trend, discussed in public understanding of scienc...
While the ears interpret information all the time, the usage of sound to represent scientific data remains contested. This article deals with the sonification of scientific data. It focuses on strategies that the practitioners of sonification utilize to establish the legitimacy of sonification as a scientific method of data display. Furthermore, it...
Citations
... Musik lo-fi merupakan musik rekaman estetika yang tidak menggunakan teknologi mutakhir dan terdapat ketidaksempurnaan teknis pada produksi perekamannya, seperti desisan pita dan suara statis (Supper, 2018). Musik lo-fi memasukkan unsur-unsur musik yang biasanya tidak dimasukkan dalam konteks profesional, seperti not yang salah dimainkan, gangguan lingkungan atau background noise, atau ketidaksempurnaan fonografi seperti suara sinyal audio dan desis kaset (Greenfield, 2018). ...
... Our Special Issue profits from several studies that have addressed the role of historical practices and traditions of knowledge in the objectification of sound (Jackson 2006;Bijsterveld 2008;Kursell 2008). More specific work has also been done on the historical formation of "hearing cultures" or "sonic skills" around certain sound objects (Thompson 2002;Erlmann 2004;Abbate 2016;Bruyninckx and Supper 2016;Davies and Lockhart 2017). Most of this scholarship has favoured the modern period, however, whereas our key contribution is to situate sonic things within longer processes of the triadic formation of concrete sounds, instrumental objectification, and knowledge. ...
Reference: Sonic things: knowledge formation in flux
... When listening to the sonification made using Algorithm I, the same one used as the first task in the questionnaire, all participants agreed that they could "really hear it". They engaged in what sociologist of sonification Alexandra Supper calls sonification karaoke by singing what they heard to be relevant [38]. This conveys the enthusiasm of the participants for the method and excitement at hearing the motif. ...
... An examination of a thesis usually involves written (i.e., a thesis/dissertation) and oral components. The oral component is variously referred to as 'the viva' (Li & Seale, 2007;Tinkler & Jackson, 2000;Trafford, 2003), 'oral defense' (Lau, Lin, & Odle, 2020;Lin, 2017Lin, , 2020, 'dissertation defense' (van der Heide, Rufas, & Supper, 2016), 'thesis defense' (Lin, 2020), or 'disputation' (Dobson, 2018). In the master's degree programs of the participating university, the written and oral components are referred to as 'a thesis' and 'the viva', respectively. ...
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... In a second task, they correctly detected three peaks that correspond to three spectral emission lines. It is important to highlight that the participants without disabilities expressed that beyond being able to detect these patterns, at the moment they do not believe they can analyse data through sound, corresponding with [26]. But our findings do not close the door to sonification, the general discourse with our participants makes evident the lack of experience using sound and the novelty of the technique. ...
... The benefits of the auditory medium lie in its potential to complement vision and reduce the associated cognitive load [41] or replace vision entirely in its absence as a form of sensory substitution [26]. However, the real-life adoption of sonification at large [30,36] and AG in particular [3,26,32] remains very limited. Many plausible reasons for this have been cited, such as challenges with interdisciplinarity in sonification research [30], lacking aesthetic and psychoacoustic motivations in sound design decisions [3,32], and the general unfamiliarity of target users with the relatively nascent field of auditory display [3]. ...
... In medicine, as in other domains, visuality tends to be privileged over other sensory knowledge-making. Ethnographic work on science, however, has shown that the practice of science includes the material and embodied work of gathering, analysing and presenting scientific information that incorporates all senses (Burri et al. 2011, Supper 2015. More specifically, in relation to biomedicine, researchers have shown that despite the progressive move towards the visual in the representation and understanding of the human body as part of the development of biomedicine, medical practice involves a combination of senses that provide doctors with the knowledge they need to learn medicine, make diagnoses and treat their patients and to communicate with their peers (Burri 2013, Goodwin 2010, Harris 2011, Maslen 2016, Prentice 2013, Schubert 2011. ...
Reference: Telemedicine and the senses: A review
... Not to be elaborated on, but included for the sake of completeness, are distinctions of listening modes in very specific contexts. Supper and Bijsterveld (2015), for example, investigate different modes of occupationspecific listening (e.g., of doctors and mechanics), and Douglas (2013) distinguishes modes of radio listening alongside attentional and imaginational levels (e.g., listening to sports, war reporting, news, music). ...
... The shift from sound as a kind of music to music as a kind of sound indexes the emergence of STS's empirical topic broadly construed. The historiography of musical and scientific instruments, for example, can be fruitfully combined into what John Tresch and Emily Dolan term a "new organology" (Tresch and Dolan, 2013). Returning again to the twenty-first century, we find that this account of the origins of modern scientific and musical practices has echoes in the growing use of non-speech audio to convey scientific data, a practice known as "sonification" or auditory display. ...
