Description
I will introduce STRAUSS, a free and open-source sonification package for Python, designed to flexibly produce sophisticated sonifications. STRAUSS is intended to integrate into data analysis, and follows cues from tools like plotting packages, so that users can produce sonification for presentation and analysis. I will discuss how we try to design a 'low-barrier, high-ceiling' tool, intending to help develop users from novice to seasoned sonifiers, with the help of bundled examples and pre-set sounds. With the v1.0 release of STRAUSS, I will also show some applications of the code across diverse data sets, producing scientific sonifications across data from diverse fields, and how we are integrating into tools to add audio functionality to existing analysis tools, such as the STScI Jdaviz to explore IFU data. Looking to the future, I'll dicuss our plans for the code and how we might use it to help expand multisenory approaches in astronomy.
- Introducing STRAUSS: https://strauss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- The philosophy behind the code: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16847
- STRAUSS @ Audio Universe: https://www.audiouniverse.org/research/strauss
- Multisensory examples with STRAUSS: https://www.youtube.com/@audiouniverse8137
