Music in the Age of Digital Surveillance
Music in the Age of Digital Surveillance is a Chrome browser extension that sonifies the cookies placed in the browser while visiting websites. This unique program utilizes the Tone.js framework to generate algorithmically generated melodies based on the number of domain-specific cookies on each web page. As users browse different pages, Music in the Age plays a melody with a delay for each cookie, resulting in a distinct combination of notes for each page.
Music has always been a powerful medium for conveying emotions, and this extension takes advantage of that. By associating different note intervals with various emotional contexts, Music in the Age aims to frame our understanding of the methodologies tracking our online behavior. It enhances the browsing experience by augmenting it with sound, allowing users to subconsciously map concretized patterns to different domains.
With Music in the Age of Digital Surveillance, users can experience a unique and immersive browsing experience that brings attention to the digital tracking that occurs while surfing the web. This free Chrome extension adds a new layer of sensory perception to our online activities, highlighting the importance of privacy and digital surveillance.
