@article{Verhoeven_Davidson_Gionfriddo_Verhoeven_Gravestock_2014, title={Turning Gigabytes into Gigs: “Songification” and Live Music Data}, url={https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/article/view/3255}, DOI={10.5278/ojs.academicquarter.v0i09.3255}, abstractNote={<p>Complex data is challenging to understand when it is represented as written communication even when it is structured in a table. However, choosing to represent data in creative ways can aid our understanding of complex ideas and patterns. In this regard, the creative industries have a great deal to offer data-intensive scholarly disciplines. Music, for example, is not often used to interpret data, yet the rhythmic nature of music lends itself to the representation and analysis of temporal data. <br>Taking the music industry as a case study, this paper explores how data about historical live music gigs can be analysed, extended and re-presented to create new insights. Using a unique process called ‘songification’ we demonstrate how enhanced auditory data design can provide a medium for aural intuition. The case study also illustrates the benefits of an expanded and inclusive view of research; in which computation and communication, method and media, in combination enable us to explore the larger question of how we can employ technologies to produce, represent, analyse, deliver and exchange knowledge.</p>}, number={09}, journal={Academic Quarter | Akademisk kvarter}, author={Verhoeven, Deb and Davidson, Alwyn and Gionfriddo, Alex and Verhoeven, James and Gravestock, Peter}, year={2014}, month={dec.}, pages={151–163} }