After getting burnt out on AutoCAD yesterday, today I researched for site design ideas.  I am discovering a whole realm of information that I didn’t know existed – from beautiful new data mapping techniques to Acoustic Ecology and existence of “a worldwide network of environmental sound art“.

Thank-you Andrea for sharing this link.  I love it!

The method behind The Shape of Song

The diagrams in The Shape of Song display musical form as a sequence of translucent arches. Each arch connects two repeated, identical passages of a composition. By using repeated passages as signposts, the diagram illustrates the deep structure of the composition.diagram of Mary Had a Little Lamb

More complex compositions create more intricate diagrams. The diagram above represents one of the Goldberg Variations. It shows that the piece divides into two main parts, each made of a long passage played twice–or what a musician would call an “AABB” structure.

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