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Monographs

From Data to Intelligible Sound: A theoretical and practical guide to large-scale data sonification. Springer Verlag, HCI series. (in progress)

Book Chapters

“Aesthetics of sonification: taking the subject-position” in Sound-Body-Space: Multimodal experiences on the boundaries between scientific research and artistic insight (Co-Author with Paul Vickers and Bennett Hogg. Editor Clemens Wöllner(2017, pp 89-109)

Using sound to identify correlations in market data in Auditory Display. Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. M. Aramaki, R. Kronland-Martinet, K. Jensen & S. Ystad (Eds). Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Verlag. 2009, pp 202-218.

An introduction to data sonification in The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music and Digital Sound Culture. Roger T. Dean (Ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009. link. (In Creative and Performance Modes section.)

Virtual Performance: performance effected in virtual space or by non-human performers. Compendium of Music and Dance in Australia , Eds Aline Scott-Maxwell and John Whiteoak. Currency Press. Sydney (2003). PDF

Iannis Xenakis a 20th Century medievalist in Avante-garde composers of the twentieth century. 2002, Greenwood Publishing. Editor, Larry Sitsky. pp 581-585.(2002). Link

Theses

Information Sonification: Concepts, instruments and techniques. PhD  (applied communication). University of Canberra. 2009. Overview and downloads

Pitch structuring in Pierre Boulez' first PIANO SONATA. Music Department, University of Adelaide.

Some compositional principles and procedures in the first chapter of the second book of Pierre Boulez' STRUCTURES POUR DEUX PIANOS. Music Department, University of Adelaide. 1976.

Refereed Journal Articles

Can Micro-Gestural Inflections Be Used to Improve the Soniculatory Effectiveness of Parameter Mapping Sonifications? Organised Sound, Volume 19, Special Issue 01 , Cambridge University Press (2014) pp 52-59. Link

The mirage of real-time algorithmic synaesthesia: Some compositional mechanisms and research agendas in computer music and sonification. Dean, Roger; Whitelaw, Mitchell; Smith, Hazel; Worrall, David. Contemporary Music Review , Volume25, Number 4, August 2006 , pp. 311-326(16) Routledge Publishing. Link

Iannis Xenakis: A composer’s perspective. Organised Sound, Vol 6 No. 1, Cambridge University Press (2001) pp 75-76. Subtitle: Vale I.X. Link

Space in sound: sound of space. Organised Sound, Vol 3 No. 2, Cambridge University Press (1998) pp 93-99. Link

Metamusical composing with computers. Sounds Australian Vol 14 (1996) No. 47. pp 25-26. PDF

A doing resounds. Organised Sound Vol 1 No. 3 Cambridge University Press (1996) pp 28-29. Anagramic sound poem. PDF?

Credo: unreliable processes. Sounds Australian. Australian Music Centre Journal No.24 Summer 1989/90, p 4-5. PDF

Electrospatial art. Sounds Australian. Australian Music Centre Journal No.19 Spring 1988, p26-27.

Structure and its role in music. Music Now Vol. 2 #2 Nov. 1974, Sydney University, pp 32-37. PDF

Non-Refereed Journal Articles

Editorial. Margaret Schedel and David R. Worrall (2014). Organised Sound,Vol 19, pp 1-3 doi:10.1017/S1355771813000356. Link

Complex systems in composition andimprovisation Editorial for Organised Sound Vol 9 No. 2. Cambridge University Press (2004) pp121-122. Issue edited by Worrall and Whitelaw. Link

Composer's Desktop Project (CDP) software for PC's and Unix (SGI) systems. Chroma  (1996) No. 22, March 1997.

A music and image composition system for a portable multichannel performance space: a technical overview. Chroma Journal of the Australian Computer Music Association Vol 1#3 (Dec. 1989) p 3-6. PDF

Writing for a large recorder ensemble. The Recorder, Journal of the Victorian Guild No.3, Nov. 1985, pp 8-12

Conference papers published in Proceedings

Realtime sonification and visualisation of network metadata (The NetSon project). Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Auditory Display, Graz, Austria, July 5-10, 2015.

Virtual reality platform for sonification evaluation. T. Kuppanda, N. Degara, D. Worrall, B. Thoshkahna. Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Auditory Display, Graz, Austria, July 5-10, 2015.

Real-time heart rate sonification for athletes. B. Stahl, B. Thoshkahna, D Worrall. Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Auditory Display, Graz, Austria, July 5-10, 2015.

Detecting Components of an ECG Signal for Sonification. D. Worrall, B. Thoshkahna and N. Degara. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Auditory Display, New York, USA, June 22-25, 2014.

Fast and Accurate Guidance - Response Times to Navigational Sounds. Nagel, F., F-R Stöter, N Degara, S Balke, D Worrall. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Auditory Display, New York, USA, June 22-25, 2014.

Understanding The Need For Micro-Gestural Inflections In Parameter-Mapping Sonification. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Auditory Display, Łódź, Poland July 6-10, 2013, pp 197-204.

A Method for Developing an Improved Mapping Model for Data Sonification”. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Auditory Display, Budapest, Hungary, June 20-24, 2011.

Parameter mapping sonic articulation and the perceiving body” The 16th International Conference on Auditory Display, Washington, D.C, USA, June 9-15, 2010.

Towards a better perception of sonic data mappings (ACMA 2010). Australasian Computer Music Conference, 2010 June 24-26, Canberra, Australia. PDF

Parameter Mapping sonic articulation and the perceiving body (ICAD 2010). Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Auditory Display. Washington DC, June 9-15, 2010. PDF

The use of sonic articulation in identifying correlation in capital market trading data. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Auditory Display, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 18-22, 2009. PDF

Overcoming software inertia in data sonification research using the SoniPy framework. The inaugural International Conference on Music Communication Science, 5-7 December 2007, Sydney, Australia. PDF

SoniPy: The design of an extendable software framework for sonification research and auditory display. Worrall, D., Bylstra, M, Barrass, S. and Dean, R. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Auditory Display, MontrÈal, Canada, June 26-29, 2007. PDF

Composition as revelation. First Iterate Conference, Monash University, December 3-5, 1999. PDF

Cyberspace and sound. Proceedings, ACMA Conference, University of Wellington, Wellington, NZ. July, 1999. PDF

Concerning the perception of sound in 3-space. Proceedings of The Australian Computer Music Conference, Auckland University, July 1997. PDF

Studies in metamusical methods. Proceedings of The Australian Computer Music Conference, Melbourne University, July 1995.

Parameter Mapping sonic articulation and the perceiving body (ICAD 2010). Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Auditory Display, Washington DC, June 9-15, 2010. PDF

The use of sonic articulation in identifying correlation in capital market trading data. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Auditory Display, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 18-22, 2009. PDF

Overcoming software inertia in data sonification research using the SoniPy framework. The inaugural International Conference on Music Communication Science 5-7 December 2007, Sydney, Australia. PDF

SoniPy: The design of an extendable software framework for sonification research and auditory display. Worrall, D., Bylstra, M, Barrass, S. and Dean, R. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Auditory Display, MontrÈal, Canada, June 26-29, 2007. PDF

Composition as revelation. First Iterate Conference, Monash University, December 3-5, 1999. PDF

Cyberspace and sound. Proceedings, ACMA Conference, University of Wellington, Wellington, NZ. July, 1999. PDF

Concerning the perception of sound in 3-space. Proceedings of The Australian Computer Music Conference, Auckland University, July 1997. PDF

Studies in metamusical methods. Proceedings of The Australian Computer Music Conference, Melbourne University, July 1995.

Procedural composition:  an overview. Proceedings of Synaesthetica '94 Symposium  July 1994, ACAT, ANU,  Canberra. PDF

Editions

Displays. Vol 47. (Elsevier). Special Issue on Sonification. Co-edited with Paul Vickers and Richard So.April 2017.

Proceedings ICAD 2016 Conference (Editor). ISBN 0-9670904-3-1. DOI 10.21785/icad2016.000

Chroma No.22, March 1997 Journal of the Australian Computer Music Association Co-edited (with Kreger).

Proceedings of MediaMix '96 International Conference. University of York, March 1996.

Proceedings of Synaesthetica '94 International Symposium, July 1994, ACAT, ANU, Canberra.

Conference and guest presentations (unpublished)

Sonic Representation and the Specious Present. Research Seminar, Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Tuesday 18 March 2014. Slides (4.4Mb) PDF

Presentation for ACMA 2007 Canberra.

Music and 3-space: some preliminary remarks concerning an ecological approach. Delivered at the Postgraduate Conference, Faculty of Creative Arts, Wollongong University, September 1997. PDF

A multichannel performance space for presenting experimental polymedia compositions. MediaMix '96. University of York, March 1996. PDF

Composing procedurally: some aspects of my music. Graduate seminars, Universities of York, Manchester and Huddersfield, UK. February-July, 1996.

An emotional geography of Australian music. University Lecture Series, University of York, UK, February, 1996. PDF

The role of space in constructing musical paradigms. University of Wollongong postgraduate colloquium,  August 1995.

Possible uses of the internet by music organisations. Music Council of Australia conference, October 1994, Adelaide. PDF

Design Structures: a course in the fundamentals of mathematics and their applications to sonic and visual composition. 2nd Bridging Mathematics Conference July 1992 ANU, Canberra. PDF

The computer as alter-ego: the use of computers in the composition of music. Australian New Music Conference, August 1990, Brisbane. PDF

Pinocchio'sJourney: on teaching music composition. Australian New Music Conference, August 1990, Brisbane. PDF

Streamer: a real-time performance and composition software environment. Australian New Music Conference, August 1990, Brisbane.

ACAT:a centre for the education of the multidisciplinary composers, artists and designers of tomorrow. Second International Symposium on Electronic Arts, November 1990, Groningin, The Netherlands.

Getting on with time. Music Analysis Conference, Melbourne University, Oct.1982.

Reviews

Sound Sculpture. Intersections in sound and sculpture in Australian Artworks. Craftsman House, Sydney 2001. Organised Sound Vol 8 No. 1 Cambridge University Press (2003), in press.

Francis Rumsey, Midi Systems and Control. (Focal Press, Oxford, U.K. 2nd Edition 1994) in Organised Sound Vol 1 No. 3 Cambridge University Press (1996) p51.

Technical Reports

Text Transformation Toolbox. Initial Documentation as pert of UC’s Verbal Interactivity Project.2004.

Sonification as a tool for Monitoring Exchange Trading. Presentation to Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre, 29 June, Sydney University as part of a (UC) SCRG ARC funding proposal

Auditory Display as a tool for exploring emergent forms in exchange-trading data. Literature review and first investigations. Initial PhD seminar Oct. 2004 Department of Creative Communication, University of Canberra

Specification of a Software Suite for Language Processing and Performance. Sonic Communications Research Group, University of Canberra. June, 2004.

A service and technical model for the National Library of Australia, in partnership with other organisations, to provide a one-stop-webshop for access to Australian music resources. Consultancy Report, National Library of Australia, March 2001.

Studio Report: Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology. Proceedings of the Australian Computer Music Conference, Melbourne University, July 1995. PDF

MPL reference manual (1983). (with Rex Harris). Computer Science Department, University of Melbourne.

Tutorialintroductions to MPL (1983). Computer Science Department, University of Melbourne.

An introduction to Music-C on the 3240 (1983). Computer Science Department, University of Melbourne.

A graded sequence of examples of instrument design for Music-C. (1983). Computer Science Department, University of Melbourne.

Newspaper Articles

Interactive multimedia as a new artform. Letter to !Bulletin, January 1995.

Babbage's bifurcated brain. ANU Reporter, November 1995. PDF

Vocalists strike the right cord. Concert review, The Australian 11 Aug. 1992, p12.

Guide to the lot, from acoustics to zydeco. The Australian, 6 August. Book review of Cary, Tristram: Illustrated compendium of music technology, Faber & Faber , London, 1972.

Manifesto

A touring performance space for compositions in sound and light . A 30 page document outlining the historical and philosophical bases of electrospatial art. (with Andrew Bernard) PDF


 












     
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