  Auditory display is concerned with the use of non-speech sound to communicate
information. If the term seems at first oxymoronic, then consider auditory
display as an activity of perceptualization, that is, the process of making
perceptible to humans aspects or features of a given data set or system. Most
commonly this is done using visual representations (which process we call
visualization) but it is not limited to the visual channel and recent years
have witnessed the increased use of auditory representations in the production
of tools for exploring data. By way of semiotics and an aesthetic perspective
shift this article posits that auditory display may be considered a form of
organized sound and explores the listening experience in this context.
