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Visualizing Joyce's Ulysses: "Sirens" as a Graphic Score
An interactive visualization of all of the sounds that comprise the
"Sirens" episode of <i>Ulysses</i> by James Joyce.

An interactive visualization of all of the sounds that comprise the
"Sirens" episode of <i>Ulysses</i> by James Joyce.

In reference to schemas for Ulysses, Joyce describes the
compositional technique behind the "Sirens" episode as a "fugue with
all musical notations,"[1] and as including the "eight regular parts
of a fuga per canonem."[2] While the structure of the episode remains
unresolved, this project is an attempt to track and classify all of
the sounds that comprise it, and depict them as a graphic score.

The first 63 lines of the chapter introduce 99 words and syllables
that reappear in different forms throughout the rest of the text. The
sounds ultimately act as leitmotifs, evoking the sensory presence of
different characters at different times.

This visualization is constructed as a line-by-line annotation of
each sound that recurs at least four times following its initial
introduction. Within each line, each sound is grouped into
repetitions, linked to its associated character(s), and sorted into
one of three possible tiers based on its distance from the root
sound. The lines are represented as columns.

View the full interactive here.

Notes

 1. Joyce to Georges Borach, 18 June 1919, in Richard Ellmann, James
    Joyce&colon; New and Revised Edition (Oxford University Press,
    1982), p. 459.
 2. Joyce to Harriet Weaver, 6 August 1919, in Ellmann, James Joyce,
    p. 462.

Tools

  * D3.js
  * Processing

Features

  * 2014 Kantar IIB Awards: Longlist
  * Columbia University Group for Experimental Methods in Humanistic
    Research

Mentions

  * Georgia Lupi
  * Lev Manovich

Documentation

  * GitHub
  * Permalink

Tags

  * dh
  * interactive
  * notation