This graph shows all 27 songs and the nodes show the connection between the songs and curators. It is interesting to see the songs that have not been picked at all and the rationale and the significance behind the choices that have been made by each group members.
Task 9
This was another challenging task for me however, I enjoyed the process. I know that there is more to it than what I have already discovered. Palladio shows a connection between all the curators. It helped me analyse and draw my own conclusion based on the statistics that was presented. Anecdotally, I thought it was not quite user friendly. I found a few helpful tutorials which assisted me in understanding it better. I think it was hard to navigate at the beginning and I spent longer than expected completing this task, but once I got my head around it I started to grow a better understanding of the entire platform. I actually enjoy exploring and analysing data, so I felt that it was a useful tool. However, I do not think I was able to uncover all of its features. I am a visual learner and I would have loved to see more colours in the graph and to optimise the platform to its maximum.
I noticed the Fifth Symphony was a common denominator between my own group members. In addition, Fifth Symphony had 32 votes in the whole survey out of 36 voters, which makes it by far one of the most popular pieces.
Melancholy Blues and Johnny B. Goode were next in line. I believe I chose the musical pieces that were familiar to me, yet they are presumably considered universal. Having said that a native of any rural village that is completely disconnected and lives in isolation from our world would probably find my choice or my taste completely disagreeable and particularly that this element of familiarity will be nonexistent. I personally did not choose the musicals that I did not identify with or the musical notes that I found hard to comprehend. Some of these tracks did not sound like music to my ears. I definitely played it safe in this exercise and after seeing the results of the survey I still would have not changed my mind.
The hardest part in this analysis is trying to draw a conclusion on the basis that rest of the curators used to make their own choices. In my case for instance I followed my ears and heart and I had a strong emotional connection with the pieces that I chose. I picked the pieces that felt relevant to my own experience and resonated with me. Consequently, I started to make more assumptions about others, although I have the analytical data in front of me, nevertheless this does not provide me with enough foresight and help me justify the choices that were made by the rest of the members within each group. This matter should be explored further in order to draw a better interpretation of the data.
In conclusion , I wanted to share this beautiful quote by E.T.A. Hoffman who wrote the following description of the Fifth Symphony and he says “How this wonderful composition, in a climax that climbs on and on, leads the listener imperiously forward into the spirit world of the infinite!… No doubt the whole rushes like an ingenious rhapsody past many a man, but the soul of each thoughtful listener is assuredly stirred, deeply and intimately, by a feeling that is none other than that unutterable portentous longing, and until the final chord—indeed, even in the moments that follow it—he will be powerless to step out of that wondrous spirit realm where grief and joy embrace him in the form of sound.”
Sources:
- Ismail, R. (2020). Golden Diversity. Retrieved from TECHNOLOGIES: THE CHANGING SPACES OF READING AND WRITING: https://blogs.ubc.ca/met2020/2020/07/10/task-9-network-a…ration-quiz-data/
- https://houstonsymphony.org/beethoven-5-famous-symphony/
- https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/creating-network-diagrams-from-historical-sources
- https://miriamposner.com/blog/getting-started-with-palladio/
- https://youtu.be/m-OVVAm0utE
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