The AIMS Project: Creative Experiments in Musical Sonification

The Applications in Musical Sonification (AIMS) project is dedicated to creative experiments in musical sonification. It studies sonification in the context of algorithmic composition, focusing on the design and implementation of these experiments in software. An initial distribution of cross-platform, open-source software is now freely available that implements some basic mappings, including historically significant compositional formalisms and mathematical models that are widely discussed throughout the literature. These applications can be used for instructional purposes or for experimentation with the use of sonifications as compositional determinants.