Sonification Design / Human-Computer Interaction Series (PDF)

¿David Worrall is an Australian composer and sound artist working a range of genres, including data sonification, sound sculpture and immersive polymedia (a term he coined in 1986) as well as traditional instrumental music composition. Worrall studied musical composition at The University of Sydney and went on to develop a creative practice encompassing a number of endeavours: instrumental and electroacoustic composition, sound poetry and sound installations. He is a programmer in several computer languages and has developed software for music composition, text transformation and sonification. Worrall was appointed to the Faculty of Music at the University of Melbourne in 1979, where he designed and taught the first undergraduate course in computer music. In 1986 he was appointed director of the Electronic Music Studios at the Canberra School of Music. He established and became the foundation head of the Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology (ACAT) at the Australian National University in 1989, a position he held for over a decade. Worrall has been a regional editor for Organised Sound (Cambridge University Press) since 1996. Since 2000 he has worked as an academic and freelance composer, experimental artist and researcher. He was a senior research fellow (2013-2017) in sonification in the Emerging Audio Research Group at Fraunhofer Society and is currently professorial chair of the Audio Arts and Acoustics Department at Columbia College Chicago and an adjunct senior research fellow in the School of Music, the Australian National University.