Print this page out! Post it in a public place! The Open Sonifications Manifesto This is a manifesto in search of many sonifications. We invite you to use it as a map to explore the varied worlds of data + sound. our bodies, our emotions, our social connections found sounds! weird sounds! ugly sounds! speech!!! subjective data, 
personal data, 
the world is 
our dataset anyone and everyone!
no training required Intention, Process, Meaning play, explore, feel, tinker We seek to explore the edges of what is possible with sonification by challenging and expanding existing conventions about we might sonify something WHY WHAT we can do with it gets to do things with it WHO What counts as VALID DATA What counts as VALID SOUND What we can use TOOLS Sonification is not one thing, it is a diversity of things. We embrace and encourage curious approaches to exploring the world through data + sound. The act of making a sonification is just as, if not more, important than the final outcome. CORE IDEAS We offer Open Sonifications as a counter-approach to dominant sonification strategies 
but believe they can (and should) co-exist. We don’t wish to obliterate the status quo, but we do wish to extend it. (traditional goal) (open goals) In addition to providing analytic insight, we acknowledge that sonifications can have 
other goals that are just as meaningful. They can: Transform us and the way we see the world Prompt us to examine our assumptions about how the world works Engage us in activism or political/social commentary (have a point of view) Allow us to express ourselves and to understand data through our bodies WE 
LOVE Raw energy Expressiveness Participation Approachability Community DANCEABILITY Making as a way of knowing Plural perspectives Performance Decentralisation Get in touch with us at opensonifications@gmail.com Desktop Overlay
The Open Sonifications Manifesto This is a manifesto in search of many sonifications. We invite you to use it as a map to explore the varied worlds of data + sound. Get in touch with us at opensonifications@gmail.com Sonification is not one thing, it is a diversity of things. We embrace and encourage curious approaches to exploring the world through data + sound. The act of making a sonification is just as, if not more, important than the final outcome. CORE IDEAS our bodies, our emotions, our social connections found sounds! weird sounds! ugly sounds! speech!!! subjective data, 
personal data, 
the world is 
our dataset anyone and everyone!
no training required Intention, Process, Meaning play, explore, feel, tinker We seek to explore the edges of what is possible with sonification by challenging and expanding existing conventions about we might sonify something WHY we can with it WHATDO gets to do things with it WHO What counts as VALID DATA What counts as VALID SOUND What we can use TOOLS (traditional goal) (open goals) In addition to providing analytic insight, we acknowledge that sonifications can have 
other goals that are just as meaningful. They can: Transform us and the way we see the world Prompt us to examine our assumptions about how the world works Engage us in activism or political/social commentary (have a point of view) Allow us to express ourselves and to understand data through our bodies WE 
LOVE Raw energy Expressiveness Participation Approachability Community DANCEABILITY Making as a way of knowing Plural perspectives Performance Decentralisation We offer Open Sonifications as a counter-approach to dominant sonification strategies 
but believe they can (and should) co-exist. We don’t wish to obliterate the status quo, but we do wish to extend it. Print this page out! Post it in a public place! Mobile Overlay