auralize

English

Etymology

From aural +‎ -ize, on the model of visualize.

Verb

auralize (third-person singular simple present auralizes, present participle auralizing, simple past and past participle auralized)

1. To model acoustic phenomena in a virtual environment; to engage in auralization.
2. 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

• see list in visualize

Related terms

• auralization