Discover Your Sonic Personality with a Unique Sound-Based Personality Quiz
What’s your sound personality? Did you even know that you have one?
Just as there are visual representations of you, there are also audio features of your personality. If you were to create a vision board, you would collate photos from magazines based on your tastes, likes and dreams. But what if you were collating sounds? Have you ever thought about what your audio board would sound like?
The audio side of you is not just the music that puts you in a good mood. It’s beyond music. It includes the tone, timbre and texture of your voice. It’s the sounds you love to hear (wind chimes) as well as those you can’t stand (nails on a chalkboard). It is the presence of sound, and the sound of silence. It’s what’s pleasing to your ears, or what you’d consider noise.
55 Minutes, a UX design agency, collaborated with Feelers, an artist collective producing art works and experiences through cross-disciplinary experimentation, to create Sonicality, a fun quiz to determine your sonic personality.
Why create a sound personality quiz?
Sonicality — which are the words “sonic” and “personality” combined — is a sound-focused microsite that facilitates your interaction with notes, tones and ambient sounds to increase your awareness and appreciation of everything audio.
The quiz takes into consideration the relationships between sound, emotions and personality and provides a fun and engaging way to increase your awareness and appreciation of the role of audio in your life and how it helps shape who you are.
“The goal of Sonicality is to encourage all of us to experience sound as part of our daily lives and appreciate how sonic branding plays a role in it in a lighthearted and engaging way,” said Wendy Wong, Head and Creative Director of 55 Minutes.
55 Minutes and Audio UX
As a UX design studio, 55 Minutes recognises the unique role of audio in making user experiences delightful and brand identities memorable. Audio is a critical aspect of UX design that taps on the distinctive power of our ears and the experiences and emotions they can elicit.
Sonicality is 55 Minutes’s latest adventure into audio. The first one was in 2022 when the team produced the podcast Can You Hear Us?. Each episode honed in on the role that sound and voice play in our modern lives, exploring various areas such as in fitness, games, and books.
“Our team is all about learning by doing. Sonicality is our latest audio project to get ourselves deeper into the space of sound as part of user experience. Through this initiative, we’d love to meet others who are also interested in audio UX, sound design and sonic branding and explore what we can do together,” Wendy said.
The Sonicality Quiz
Click on sonicality.55mins.com and start the quiz!
After answering 10 multiple choice questions — which includes listening to audio brand sounds, soundscapes and audio effects — your sonic personality is revealed.
It will be one of the eight sonic personality types: The Artist, The Hermit, The Hero, The Lover, The Nomad, The Sage, The Star and The Warrior.
Each sound personality type has been illustrated by various artists from Singapore and Romania who created the illustrations based on the unique sound composed for each personality by Artwave Studio.
When you get your results, you’ll be able to listen to a unique sound composed and customised for your personality type. You’ll also find out which three other sonic personality types you’re most compatible with.
55 Minutes has also curated Spotify playlists for each of the eight personality types. Once you’ve completed the quiz, you’ll be led to a Spotify playlist of your sound personality. If you’re interested, you can also suggest a song to add to your personality playlist.
Take the Quiz!
Take the quiz here and discover your own sonic personality! Share your results on social media using the hashtag #sonicality
If you have project ideas, business goals or solutions related to sound, or are interested in collaborating with us on anything audio, we’d love to hear from you! Please email us at hello@55mins.com.
