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Open Data as Music MaterialDr Diana Salazar, City University London | Kathyrn Corrick, Open Data Institute

What are the creative and social implications ofsourcing, sampling and sonifying open data in thecomposition of new music?

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In Conversation

Three examples of projects by Diana Salazar

Some thoughts on composing with data

Discussion

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663307Sand all was white (The Arches, Glasgow)

Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKToDAFvunA

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SpindlesongsAn 8-channel sound installation, made possible with kind assistance from the National

Trust and the North-West Sound Archive

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8-channel sound

Sampling of audio archives,

machinery and interviews

What is data? The ethics of

sound data.

The potential of heritage

spaces

Spindlesongs Audio:https://soundcloud.com/diana_salazar/spindlesongs-installation

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Corporeal CartographyMaria Salgado Llopis & Diana Salazar

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Type and placement of sensors

Data mapping

Bodycentric space, the

performance space and

imagined sonic spaces

Legibility of data mapping to

sound

Corporeal

Cartography

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Why Use Data?

Increasing accessibility of data

Ease of manipulation in a variety of ways Marrying the conceptual and creative

Generating weight and wider significance

An ideaa starting point

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Process and Practice

1. Use of data in raw form

2. Translating dataa continuum 3. Use of data as concept or extra-musical idea

What is the composer trying to achieve?

Aims may inform data processes

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Compositional Hazards(!)

Where is the meaning?

Extreme abstraction of data as sound; the blandsonification

Issues of authenticity

Data as gimmick

Thinking beyond the data?

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The Potential of Spaces

Physical data

People and presence The acoustic signature

Contextual data

The ethics of (unaware) audience monitoring and

participation?

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