Sonification:<\/p>\n
Sonification<\/b>\u00a0is the use of non-speech\u00a0audio<\/a>\u00a0to convey\u00a0information<\/a>\u00a0or perceptualize data.\u00a0Auditory perception<\/a>\u00a0has advantages in temporal, spatial, amplitude, and frequency resolution that open possibilities as an alternative or complement to\u00a0visualization<\/a>\u00a0techniques.<\/p>\n
For example, the rate of clicking of a\u00a0Geiger counter<\/a>\u00a0conveys the level of radiation in the immediate vicinity of the device. [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Noted in “How sounds from space are revealing otherwise hidden cosmic phenomena<\/em><\/a>,” Ajay Peter Manuel, NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (28 December 2022, paywall):<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t until the 1960s that astronomers began listening to their data on purpose. And it was\u00a0Donald Gurnett<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Iowa who pioneered the technique. When data came back from the\u00a0Voyager 1 mission<\/a>\u00a0as it flew past Io, a moon of Jupiter, in 1979, Gurnett listened to the signals and identified low-frequency radio waves. In the 1980s, Gurnett and his colleagues used sonification to identify problems affecting the\u00a0Voyager 2 mission<\/a>\u00a0as it traversed the rings of Saturn. When they converted signals from the craft\u2019s radio and plasma wave science instrument into an audio representation, they heard sounds that they described as\u00a0\u201cresembling a hailstorm\u201d<\/a>. This led to the discovery that\u00a0electromagnetically charged micrometeoroids<\/a>\u00a0the size of grains of dust were bombarding the probe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Ears as highly sensitive sensory analyzers. BONUS<\/strong>: An example from the article, sourced on YouTube<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n