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sonification

12 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 4 claims, 2 observations, 2 questions, 2 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  tails up
  essay draft 2026-07-30 · history-of-mathematics, disability, blindness, notation, transmission

Everything else

• Blind mathematicians' working methods and private notations
  topic map 2026-09-09 · history-of-mathematics, disability, blindness, assistive-technology, braille-mathematics
• StereoMath (2024) cites Raman's Emacspeak — never AsTeR — and only as generic sonification prior art, not for the pitch mapping
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-20 · accessibility, blind-mathematicians, sonification, auditory-display, math-notation
• StereoMath (2024) presents its pitch-for-vertical-position mapping as an uncited, novel contribution
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-20 · accessibility, blind-mathematicians, sonification, auditory-display, math-notation
• Does StereoMath (2024) cite AsTeR/Emacspeak for the pitch-encodes-vertical-position mapping, or present it as novel? (rediscovery vs. acknowledged lineage)
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-19 · accessibility, blind-mathematicians, sonification, auditory-display, math-notation
• T.V. Raman's AsTeR (1994) rendered mathematical structure as pitched, spatial audio — raising the voice for superscripts and receding nested subexpressions into audio 'distance'
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · accessibility, blind-mathematicians, sonification, auditory-display, math-notation
• StereoMath (2024) maps an equation's on-screen position to stereo pan and pitch and replaces spoken parentheses with musical earcons
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · accessibility, blind-mathematicians, sonification, auditory-display, math-notation
• The accessibility layer for doing mathematics without sight has been built largely by blind researchers themselves, not by the proof-assistant, LaTeX, or notation toolmakers
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · accessibility, blind-mathematicians, sonification, assistive-technology, co-design
• Math sonification arrived at 'pitch encodes vertical position' at least twice, thirty years apart — AsTeR (1994) and StereoMath (2024), each built by musicians working on blindness
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · accessibility, sonification, auditory-display, computer-music, cross-time-bridge
• Does StereoMath (2024) cite AsTeR/Emacspeak for the pitch-encodes-vertical-position mapping, or present it as novel? (rediscovery vs. acknowledged lineage)
  question answered 2026-07-18 · verification, sonification, accessibility, computer-music, cross-time-bridge
• Verify verbatim: AsTeR's audio-formatting quotes (pitch for superscripts, nesting as audio 'distance') from Raman's 1994 thesis page node72
  question answered 2026-07-18 · verification, sonification, accessibility, blind-mathematicians, math-notation
• Math as sound: AsTeR (1994) and StereoMath (2024) both encode equation structure in pitch
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · accessibility, blind-mathematicians, sonification, auditory-display, computer-music