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Visualizing Joyce's Ulysses: "Sirens" as a Graphic Score
Emily Fuhrman is a data artist based in London.
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. This visualization is constructed as a line-by-line annotation of each sound that recurs at least four times following its initial introduction.
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