WAC 2025

Paper

O’Flaherty, T. F., Elmokadem, M. B., Xu, X., Manjunatha, K. N., Roma, G., Xenakis, G., Xambó Sedó, A. “Sonification Mappings for Sensing Tree Stress - A DIY Approach”. Proceedings of the Web Audio Conference 2025. Ircam/Mozilla, Paris, France.

Live Demo

Our interactive tools can be found at:

• Live demo (basic mappings): Northern_1 | Northern_2
• Live demo (complex mappings)

Other useful links:

• To test the latest JSON file sent, go to: Northern_1 | Northern_2
• To read the array of all the JSON files generated so far, go to: Northern_1 | Northern_2

Video Demos

Basic sonifications

Custom sonifications

Inference sonifications

Code

• Custom-built Sensing Unit System (hardware)
• Custom web server backend
• Tree talker basic mappings

Acknowledgements

This research is part of the Sensing the Forest project, which has received funding from the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/X011585/2). Special thanks to Ireti Olowe for her valuable insights on mappings.