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The number of events and artifacts described as sonification has increased considerably in recent years with some works making a bridge between the representation of data and artistic expression. Flood Tide which sonifies the flow of tidal water is such a work and has achieved a relatively high profile attracting good audiences for its 10 performances to date. It is not entirely obvious however what it is that attracts audiences and whether it is effective at representing the data being sonified. This paper aims to address these issues and is based on a discussion group in which these and other questions are considered.
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Flood Tide—See Further Festival, Southbank Centre, 4th July 2010. http://www.seefurtherfestival.org/events/view/flood-tide.
Sonification (what where how why). Aix En Provence, France, March 2010. http://locusonus.org/w/?page=Symposium+sonification.
Test Dept. http://testdept.org.uk/.
Morley Gallery http://www.morleycollege.ac.uk/gallery/.
Transcribe—Seventh String http://www.seventhstring.com/.
Flood Tide Trinity Buoy Wharf, London 28th June 2008. Flood Tide—See Further, Southbank London. 4th July 2010.
A Nortek Vectrino Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter situated in the river near to the performance reads the speed of water flow and provides input to the performance setup. http://www.nortek-as.com/en.
For the first 3 h of the performance (the upward slope if the data was mapped to a graph) the tide rate increases and the last 3 h is the downward slope.
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Eacott, J. Flood Tide: sonification as musical performance—an audience perspective. AI & Soc 27, 189–195 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-011-0338-2
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