# Site

## Pages

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- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [Cosmic Listening Instrument](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/assessments/cosmic-listening-instrument/): Design, test and publish an interactive instrument that makes one astronomical pattern audible and accountable.
- [Listening Notebook](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/assessments/listening-notebook/): Four compact experiments that establish a vocabulary for source, mapping and listening evidence.
- [Pulsar Signal Study](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/assessments/pulsar-signal-study/): Analyse one periodic radio signal and defend the transformations used to make its timing audible.
- [Sonification Critique](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/assessments/sonification-critique/): Audit a published astronomical sonification by reconstructing its mapping and testing its claim.
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
- [Can space be heard?](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/lectures/week-01/): Separate physical sound, electromagnetic measurement and designed sonification.
- [From telescope to speaker](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/lectures/week-02/): Follow a measurement through calibration, reduction, representation and playback.
- [Mapping numbers to sound](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/lectures/week-03/): Design and compare mappings across pitch, loudness, timbre, time and stereo position.
- [The clocks of pulsars](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/lectures/week-04/): Use periodic radio pulses to distinguish audification from musical quantisation.
- [The noisy Sun](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/lectures/week-05/): Hear bursts, baselines and interference without treating every spike as a solar event.
- [The gravitational-wave chirp](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/lectures/week-06/): Reconstruct why a compact-binary signal rises in frequency and how it enters hearing.
- [Listening to light](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/lectures/week-07/): Traverse an astronomical image while keeping spatial position and intensity legible.
- [Spectra, colour and redshift](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/lectures/week-08/): Translate spectral lines while preserving wavelength, intensity and scale.
- [Noise, gaps and uncertainty](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/lectures/week-09/): Make missing samples and confidence limits part of the listening experience.
- [Accessibility beyond the graph](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/lectures/week-10/): Treat sonification as one coordinated representation, not an automatic accessibility fix.
- [When sonification lies](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/lectures/week-11/): Audit aesthetic choices, omitted values and suggestive musical framing.
- [The cosmic listening room](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/lectures/week-12/): Present a public instrument, invite structured listening and defend every transformation.
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [Dr Amara Vale](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/people/amara-vale/): An astronomer and auditory-display researcher who convenes the course and teaches the signal, mapping and interpretation lectures.
- [Eli Chen](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/people/eli-chen/): A sound designer and accessibility practitioner who leads listening tests, critiques and the practical construction of course instruments.
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/policies/): Course-wide rules for hearing safety, access, data attribution, AI use, extensions and getting help.
- [One curve, two readings](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/sessions/week-01/): Compare pitch and rhythm mappings while the source values remain fixed.
- [Draw the provenance chain](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/sessions/week-02/): Trace a small light curve from detector images to a playable sequence.
- [Mapping shoot-out](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/sessions/week-03/): Test linear, logarithmic and quantised mappings against a recognition task.
- [Fold a pulsar](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/sessions/week-04/): Align repeated pulses and compare raw timing with a folded profile.
- [Noise or event?](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/sessions/week-05/): Annotate a dynamic spectrum before choosing what the sonification will retain.
- [Chirp under inspection](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/sessions/week-06/): Compare raw, filtered and shifted renderings of a gravitational-wave event.
- [Scan an X-ray field](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/sessions/week-07/): Prototype a spatial scan of an astronomical image with progress cues.
- [Find the shifted line](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/sessions/week-08/): Design reference cues that make two emission spectra comparable by ear.
- [Make uncertainty audible](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/sessions/week-09/): Compare error voices, roughness and explicit gaps on one light curve.
- [Design without sound](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/sessions/week-10/): Ensure the scientific task remains possible through text, table and visual channels.
- [The honesty audit](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/sessions/week-11/): Identify where an instrument's musical framing may overstate its evidence.
- [Open the listening room](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-xty116/sessions/week-12/): Run the final instrument with public listeners and capture evidence for one revision.