CoHEARence: a qualitive User-(Pre-)Test on Resynthesized Shapes for coherent visual Sound Design

To achieve an intuitive way of designing sound, visual approaches for synthesis or sound collages are used. In order to create a coherent workflow between visual and resulting audio, the stimuli should be matched to each other. Therefore, during spectral synthesis and editing, the sound is designed in a visualization of the frequency domain. In this work, a qualitative user pre-test is introduced, which is supposed to show the intuitive understanding from the shape to the sound. So, whether there is a connection between the visual shape and the subsequent auditory impression.