Panson: An interactive sonification framework for real-time applications

Many sonification systems face a number of common design challenges. These are addressed in every project with different, specific-purpose solutions. We present Panson – an interactive sonification framework implemented in Python that can ease the development of sonification systems. Panson allows the user to implement sonifications using the sc3nb library as interface to the SuperCollider sound synthesis engine. The framework provides support for both offline and online (real-time) sonification through a set of composable classes; these classes are designed to natively support interaction in Jupyter Notebooks. Using Panson, we will show an example of its application by implementing a facial expression sonification Jupyter Notebook based on OpenFace 2.0.