Web sonification with synesthesia tools

Abstract

In this paper, we present an investigation on sonification of web pages involving three media: HTML structure, page text and images. In our approach, HTML pages are read as musical scores; text elements are also read as musical scores following the idea present in notation systems like ABC; and images are read as wave files. We developed a set of tools for website sonification which can be used to explore musical creativity and to create new sounds based on the web pages content. In addition, we show how to create sounds and visual feedback using this tool.