NetSon

A project by David Worrall and

Perceptual Monitoring of Network Metadata in Realtime
NetSon is a prototype perceptual monitoring tool that uses sound and moving image to display features of an organization’s network. As an Art & Technology project it is a polymedia work that exists in the fuzzy boundary between transcendental expression and as tool for prediction, problem solving and action. Its pragmatic use is to assist people to peripherally monitor the activity of individual parts of a network–the ways in which they converge and interact–or of the network as a whole system. This can help them understand the operational characteristics of the network in real time and while engaged in other tasks.

NetSon can be used to monitor and display an organization’s network in a number of configurations: as an IT operational support tool, as a multichannel installation in a building’s foyer, or as a streaming audiovisual webcast (in explicit or data-protected versions) from an organization’s web- or intranet-site. The techniques used are equally applicable to other Big Data monitoring and exploration challenges.

An overview of online of documentation for NetSon pdf.
For more details of the working of NetSon's data sonification read:

View some YouTube videos about NetSon and other sonification matters, including a general introduction to data sonification.

Process Flow Diagram (see outline)	Live stream edit (QT video, 91 Mb)	Screen Shot (redacted version)
*NetSon at Fraunhofer*
IIS Director Albert Heuberger opens the Installation	A Fraunhofer CorpoReal Image Wall	Rebekah Worrall and Albert Heuberger
IIS Director Albert Heuberger opens the Installation	A Fraunhofer CorpoReal Image Wall	Udo Rink David Worrall (& Blinky)

NetSon on Tour: 2015 Installations

Erlangen Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen IIS Am Wolfsmantel 33 91058 Erlangen Foyer Installation Website Installation (including live stream)	Brussels 22–23 June 2015 Science Technology and the Arts (START) Symposium Foyer Ovale BOZART Palais des Beaux-Arts Rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Bruxelles	Graz 8–12 July 2015 International Conference for Auditory Display (ICAD 2015) medien kunst labor Bürgergasse 5, Graz

Canberra 17 August–2 September 2015 Entrance Foyer School of Music (Building 100) The Australian National University William Herbert Place Canberra, ACT 2601	Improvisation, Canberra Watch Video	Tsukuba 29–30 September 2015 Tsukuba Global Science Week Global Science WeekUniversity of Tsukuba International Congress Center EPOCHAL TSUKUBA 4F Conference Room 403
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