Patent ID: 7138575

Claim:
A method for musical sonification of a plurality of real-time data streams to monitor said data streams, said method comprising: acquiring a plurality of data inputs from a plurality of real-time data streams; mapping data parameters of said data to be sonified to sound parameters corresponding to a musical rendering of mapped data; and sonifying said mapped data in said real-time data streams by converting data input values acquired from said data inputs into corresponding sound parameters as said data input values are acquired and generating an audio signal output from said corresponding sound parameters, wherein said mapped data is sonified in accordance with an operating mode selected from the group consisting of an alert mode for providing musical sonification using event based alerts, an individual mode for providing musical sonification using continuous single point individual data monitoring, and a relationship mode for providing musical sonification using relationships between several individual data streams, wherein said audio signal output includes said musical rendering of said mapped data in said data streams, and wherein said real-time data streams are monitored by listening to said musical rendering.