Alexandra Supper
Biographic Data
| ID | 1462233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra Supper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Supper |
| SIGNATURE | SUPPER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-7153-1785 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
More Where That Came From”
In May 2024, the country singer Randy Travis released his first new recording in over a decade, using an AI model of his voice, which he had lost after a stroke. This article analyzes the media coverage of the song’s release and shows how it was framed as a human-interest story about Travis being “given back” his voice with the help of AI techniques and a close-knit community of human professionals. This framing helps to render AI as familiar and…
Observing Uno
In this article, I want to share and reflect upon a classroom activity that I have developed to practice participant observation skills with undergraduate students: a modified version of the card game Uno, in which some students are cast as players, while others slip into the role of observers. I have found this to be a playful but effective way of creating a shared understanding of what it takes to do participant observation research. After sket…
Listening for the hiss
Lo-fi music is commonly associated with a recording aesthetic marked by an avoidance of state-of-the-art technologies and an inclusion of technical flaws, such as tape hiss and static. However, I argue that lo-fi music is not defined merely by the presence of such imperfections, but by a discourse which deliberately draws attention to them. Album liner notes play an important role in this discourse, as they can function as curatorial practices, t…
Doctoral Dissertation Defenses
Dissertation defenses are ambiguous affairs, which mark both the end of a long process of doctoral education and the inauguration of a doctoral candidate into a body of experts. At Maastricht University (and other Dutch universities), the decision to award a doctoral degree is made on the basis of the written dissertation well before the defense, which makes the ambiguous status of the event between examination and celebration especially evident.…
Sonic skills in cultural contexts
Lobbying for the ear, listening with the whole body
Sonification, the transformation of data into sound, is often argued to challenge the “visual culture” of science. Based on an analysis of rhetorical discourses as well as bodily practices within the sonification community, I show that the relationship between sonification and visual culture is in fact more complex and ambivalent: in publications and interviews, sonification researchers blame visual practices for the marginalisation of sound, but…
Sound Information
In recent years, sonification—the auditory display of data—has received increasing media attention and been presented as a solution to the challenges posed by large, complex datasets. By analyzing the development of the sonification research community, this article shows that specific historical configurations have led the community to concentrate on technical solutions for the design of sonification technology rather than on analyzing and interp…
Sounds Convincing
This article investigates the role of listening in the knowledge making practices of Western scientists, engineers, and physicians from the 1920s onwards. It does so by offering a two-dimensional typology of the modes of listening that they employ. Distinguishing between two dimensions allows us to make sense both of the purpose and of the ways in which scientists, engineers, and physicians have listened to their objects of study; and it also all…
Data Karaoke
At the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to sonification and the use of non-speech sound to represent information, presenters make use of a variety of bodily skills and representations that appeal to the senses of their audience. In many established disciplines, the conventions that guide the use of these skills and representations are taken for granted; but within ICAD, they are often …
Sublime frequencies
In the past two decades, the sonification of scientific data - an auditory equivalent of data visualization in which data are turned into sounds - has become increasingly widespread, particularly as an artistic practice and as a means of popularizing science. Sonification is thus part of the recent trend, discussed in public understanding of science literature, towards increased emphasis on 'interactivity' and 'crossovers' between science and art…
Sublime frequencies
In the past two decades, the sonification of scientific data - an auditory equivalent of data visualization in which data are turned into sounds - has become increasingly widespread, particularly as an artistic practice and as a means of popularizing science. Sonification is thus part of the recent trend, discussed in public understanding of science literature, towards increased emphasis on 'interactivity' and 'crossovers' between science and art…
Sounds Convincing
This article investigates the role of listening in the knowledge making practices of Western scientists, engineers, and physicians from the 1920s onwards. It does so by offering a two-dimensional typology of the modes of listening that they employ. Distinguishing between two dimensions allows us to make sense both of the purpose and of the ways in which scientists, engineers, and physicians have listened to their objects of study; and it also all…
Sonic skills in cultural contexts
Data Karaoke
At the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to sonification and the use of non-speech sound to represent information, presenters make use of a variety of bodily skills and representations that appeal to the senses of their audience. In many established disciplines, the conventions that guide the use of these skills and representations are taken for granted; but within ICAD, they are often …
Listening for the hiss
Lo-fi music is commonly associated with a recording aesthetic marked by an avoidance of state-of-the-art technologies and an inclusion of technical flaws, such as tape hiss and static. However, I argue that lo-fi music is not defined merely by the presence of such imperfections, but by a discourse which deliberately draws attention to them. Album liner notes play an important role in this discourse, as they can function as curatorial practices, t…
Lobbying for the ear, listening with the whole body
Sonification, the transformation of data into sound, is often argued to challenge the “visual culture” of science. Based on an analysis of rhetorical discourses as well as bodily practices within the sonification community, I show that the relationship between sonification and visual culture is in fact more complex and ambivalent: in publications and interviews, sonification researchers blame visual practices for the marginalisation of sound, but…
Sublime frequencies
In the past two decades, the sonification of scientific data - an auditory equivalent of data visualization in which data are turned into sounds - has become increasingly widespread, particularly as an artistic practice and as a means of popularizing science. Sonification is thus part of the recent trend, discussed in public understanding of science literature, towards increased emphasis on 'interactivity' and 'crossovers' between science and art…
Sound Information
In recent years, sonification—the auditory display of data—has received increasing media attention and been presented as a solution to the challenges posed by large, complex datasets. By analyzing the development of the sonification research community, this article shows that specific historical configurations have led the community to concentrate on technical solutions for the design of sonification technology rather than on analyzing and interp…
Sounds Convincing
This article investigates the role of listening in the knowledge making practices of Western scientists, engineers, and physicians from the 1920s onwards. It does so by offering a two-dimensional typology of the modes of listening that they employ. Distinguishing between two dimensions allows us to make sense both of the purpose and of the ways in which scientists, engineers, and physicians have listened to their objects of study; and it also all…
Data Karaoke
At the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to sonification and the use of non-speech sound to represent information, presenters make use of a variety of bodily skills and representations that appeal to the senses of their audience. In many established disciplines, the conventions that guide the use of these skills and representations are taken for granted; but within ICAD, they are often …
Doctoral Dissertation Defenses
Dissertation defenses are ambiguous affairs, which mark both the end of a long process of doctoral education and the inauguration of a doctoral candidate into a body of experts. At Maastricht University (and other Dutch universities), the decision to award a doctoral degree is made on the basis of the written dissertation well before the defense, which makes the ambiguous status of the event between examination and celebration especially evident.…
Sonic skills in cultural contexts
Lobbying for the ear, listening with the whole body
Sonification, the transformation of data into sound, is often argued to challenge the “visual culture” of science. Based on an analysis of rhetorical discourses as well as bodily practices within the sonification community, I show that the relationship between sonification and visual culture is in fact more complex and ambivalent: in publications and interviews, sonification researchers blame visual practices for the marginalisation of sound, but…
Listening for the hiss
Lo-fi music is commonly associated with a recording aesthetic marked by an avoidance of state-of-the-art technologies and an inclusion of technical flaws, such as tape hiss and static. However, I argue that lo-fi music is not defined merely by the presence of such imperfections, but by a discourse which deliberately draws attention to them. Album liner notes play an important role in this discourse, as they can function as curatorial practices, t…
Observing Uno
In this article, I want to share and reflect upon a classroom activity that I have developed to practice participant observation skills with undergraduate students: a modified version of the card game Uno, in which some students are cast as players, while others slip into the role of observers. I have found this to be a playful but effective way of creating a shared understanding of what it takes to do participant observation research. After sket…
More Where That Came From”
In May 2024, the country singer Randy Travis released his first new recording in over a decade, using an AI model of his voice, which he had lost after a stroke. This article analyzes the media coverage of the song’s release and shows how it was framed as a human-interest story about Travis being “given back” his voice with the help of AI techniques and a close-knit community of human professionals. This framing helps to render AI as familiar and…
Psychology (8 works) · Active listening (5 works) · Communication (5 works) · Communication (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Music Technology and Sound Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Sonification (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works)