strauss: Sonification Tools and Resources for Analysis Using Sound Synthesis
James W. Trayford, Samantha Youles, Chris M. Harrison, Rose Shepherd, Nicolas Bonne · The Journal of Open Source Software · 2025
Sonification, or conveying data using non-verbal audio, is a relatively niche but growing approach for presenting data across multiple specialist domains including astronomy, climate science, and beyond (Lenzi et al., 2021;Lindborg et al., 2023;Zanella et al., 2022).The strauss Python package aims to provide such a tool that builds upon previous approaches to provide a powerful means to explore different ways of expressing data, with fine control over the output audio and its format.strauss is a free, open source (FOSS) Python package, designed to allow flexible and effective sonification to be straightforwardly integrated into data workflows, in analogy to widely used visualisation packages.