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Sonification Critique

Audit a published astronomical sonification by reconstructing its mapping and testing its claim.

Due4 October 2027
Weight20%
StageWeek 9

The brief

Treat one public sonification as an argument: reconstruct how it works, test what it lets a listener know, and redesign one consequential choice.

Choose a work with enough documentation to identify its source and mapping. Your critique must address uncertainty, attribution and at least two different access needs. Taste alone is not evidence.

What you submit

An accessible document with a signal-chain diagram, cited listening observations, mapping table and a small redesign sketch or prototype. Include alt text or a structured description for every figure.

The spec

The brief poses the problem and leaves room for a response. The spec is the fixed part: what a marker checks. Some lines can be checked mechanically; the rest call for judgement.

How it is marked

CriterionWeight
Reconstruction of the mapping35%
Evidence-led critique40%
Ethical and accessibility analysis25%