Scientific data sonification is a kind of application that can greatly benefit from the development of large distributed computing infrastructures like GRID. Data sonification is becoming one of the most promising analysis tools, since sounds can summarize significant amounts of information and can be characterized, stored and studied in a simpler and easier way with respect to other data representations (such as images, for example).

Even though the use of sonification is now clearly understood by the scientific community, its practical use has received limited attention so far because of the intensive computing usually required to produce sounds. With the development of computing GRIDS data sonification is now back to the public. >from *Beyond Einstein world wide webcast*.

To celebrate Einstein Year (World Year of Physics), some of the worlds leading physics laboratories are taking part in a 12 hour webcast to show public audiences the excitement of Einsteins life, science and legacy. The programme will be broadcast from locations including CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory and birthplace of the World Wide Web, on December 1st 2005.

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> sentences sonification with grid. send a message to celebrate world year of physics 2005 and compose its soundscape!
> sounds of space. sonification of data previously collected from the sun.
> atmospherics/weather works: the sonification of meteorological data.
> sonification/listening up: research made audible. audio representations of sound waves embedded in the ionosphere. september, 2005
> iGrid 2005. september 26-30, 2005
> paleontological sonification: letting music bring fossils to your ears. may 1, 2005
> primordial sounds: big bang acoustics. august 27, 2004
> tele-immersion demonstration: milestone of grid computing. november 27, 2002
> science grid deployement: emerging model of computing. april 3, 2002
> bubble fusion: sound-induced nuclear fusion. march 13, 2002
> eon project: material poetry by shawn brixey. uses the mysterious phenomenon of sonoluminescence. march 13, 2002
> sonic flashlight: make human body translucent. december 11, 2001
> phonons measurement reveals internal structure of objects. november 14, 2001

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> sonic data magnification

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