Ubiquitous music in smart city: musification of air pollution and user context

As smart city technologies proliferate, new sources of data are becoming ubiquitous. The auditory modality appears promising to create experiences giving users new meanings about their environment. Building on the fields of sonification, ubiquitous music and mobile music, we set out in this paper a musical smart city ecology whereby environment and user-related data are used to drive the music creation process. We discuss several challenges related to this vision including how artificial intelligence may be used for data-driven music generation. Finally, we discuss air pollution and user context musification use cases illustrating applications to smart city contexts