Sonification is defined as the use of non-speech audio to extract information from data and it represents the sound analogue to graphical visualization. The method is applied in several disciplines from economy to medicine to physics. Sonification might also help in analyzing data of lattice QCD. It could assist, together with graphical display, to examine the behavior of lattice observables as a function of parameters like gauge coupling, quark mass, etc. Sonification might further be used to identify unique characteristics of single gauge-field configurations out of many such as, for example, the topological content. In order to demonstrate the methodology for quantum chromodynamics we analyze the monopole order parameter from the confinement to the deconfinement phase. We further produce a sound file for the Lyapunov exponents of classical U(1) and SU(2) gauge theory. The studies are also part of the development of program packages for audio browsing within the interdisciplinary research project SonEnvir (http://sonenvir.at/).
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