WELLE - a web-based music environment for the blind

Jens Vetter

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper presents WELLE, a web-based music environment for blind people, and describes its development, design, notation syntax and first experiences. WELLE is intended to serve as a collaborative, performative and educational tool to quickly create and record musical ideas. It is pattern-oriented, based on textual notation and focuses on accessibility, playful interaction and ease of use. WELLE was developed as part of the research project Tangible Signals and will also serve as a platform for the integration of upcoming new interfaces.

Citation

Jens Vetter. 2020. WELLE - a web-based music environment for the blind. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4813208 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{NIME20_114,
 abstract = {This paper presents WELLE, a web-based music environment for blind people, and describes its development, design, notation syntax and first experiences. WELLE is intended to serve as a collaborative, performative and educational tool to quickly create and record musical ideas. It is pattern-oriented, based on textual notation and focuses on accessibility, playful interaction and ease of use. WELLE was developed as part of the research project Tangible Signals and will also serve as a platform for the integration of upcoming new interfaces.},
 address = {Birmingham, UK},
 author = {Vetter, Jens},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4813208},
 editor = {Romain Michon and Franziska Schroeder},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {July},
 pages = {587--590},
 publisher = {Birmingham City University},
 title = {WELLE - a web-based music environment for the blind},
 url = {https://www.nime.org/proceedings/2020/nime2020_paper114.pdf},
 year = {2020}
}