Week 7 Listening Lab: Scan an X-ray field
Prototype a spatial scan of an astronomical image with progress cues.
Listening Lab 07
20 September 2027
Leave with
a storyboard for an image sonification
Before the lab#
Listen to the Chandra Deep Field example with its caption open.
In the lab#
Storyboard a row, column or radial scan. Test whether a listener can locate two
bright regions and identify when the scan ends without seeing the image.
Leave with#
An eight-frame storyboard, mapping legend and structured text description.
The spec
What you bring to the session. Written so a reader can tell whether it has been met without asking you.
- scan origin, direction and duration are explicit
- spatial and intensity mappings use independent sound dimensions
- a non-audio image description accompanies the storyboard