auralize
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From aural + -ize, on the model of visualize.
Verb
[edit]auralize (third-person singular simple present auralizes, present participle auralizing, simple past and past participle auralized)
- To model acoustic phenomena in a virtual environment; to engage in auralization.
- To form a mental representation of what something sounds like.
- Synonym: audialize
- 2010, Pauline Oliveros, Sounding the Margins: Collected Writings 1992-2009, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 23:
- For example I ask musicians to auralize the sound of cells dividing as a sonic metaphor in the score to Primordial Lift. It could be helpful though to actually be able to hear the real sound as an example. We live in a sonorous environment.
- 2016, Evangeline Benedetti, Cello, Bow and You: Putting it All Together, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 201:
- Play the first note of a scale, and while holding it, auralize the second note; then play the second note, and while holding it, hear in your head the third note; then play that note, and continue throughout the scale.
Coordinate terms
[edit]- see list in visualize