In this work, we report on the results and lessons learned from different disciplines while researching the loosely-defined problem of hearing a city. We present Xenakis, a tool for the musification of urban data, which is able to capture some features of a city's topology through the distribution of street orientations, and turn it into a (very) small piece of music, a loop, which can be used as building block for compositions. Besides providing complementary visual and auditory channels to interface with this data, we also allow the piping of \textit{midi} signals to other applications. This concept was developed by visualization researchers collaborating with musicians using design study methodologies in an open-ended way. Our results include musical tracks, and we take advantage of the scope of alt.VIS to communicate our research in a sincere, humorous, and engaging format.

翻译：在这项工作中,我们报告不同学科的成果和经验教训,同时研究定义松散的城市听力问题。我们介绍Xenakis,这是一个城市数据变异的工具,它能够通过街道方向的分布来捕捉城市地形的一些特征,并把它变成一个(非常)小的音乐片,一个循环,可以用来作为组成构件的构件。我们除了提供与这些数据接口的辅助视觉和听觉渠道外,还允许通过可视化研究人员与音乐家合作,以开放的方式利用设计研究方法开发出这个概念。我们的成果包括音乐轨道,并利用alt.VIS的范围,以真诚、幽默和吸引人的方式交流我们的研究。