Definition of "sonification"

In another project, Weather sonification (Flowers and al., 2001), the correlation is made between different types of data, such as air pressure and temperature, with musical instruments.

2008, Fabio Paternò, Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Human-Computer Interaction Symposium

Sonification is a subset of a larger field called Auditory Display, which examines how sound can be used as the main conduit for conveying, understanding, and relaying information.

2013, Nick Collins, Margaret Schedel, Scott Wilson, Electronic Music, page 173

Over the past 20 years, there have been many explorations and examples of sonifications.

2013, Siu-Lan Tan, Annabel J. Cohen, Scott D. Lipscomb, The Psychology of Music in Multimedia, page 350

As such, the mappings for direct data sonification should be straightforward in order to provide an intuitive correlation between brain activity and sound.

2014, Eduardo Reck Miranda, Julien Castet, Guide to Brain-Computer Music Interfacing, page 228