{"id":234,"date":"2016-02-15T11:29:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T10:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2017-10-05T11:36:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T10:36:35","slug":"brittens-poets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/15\/brittens-poets\/","title":{"rendered":"Britten&#8217;s Poets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"medium-6 columns\">\n<dl class=\"row\">\n<dt class=\"medium-2 columns\">Situation<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"medium-10 columns\">\n                    In anticipation of the exhibition, curators at the Britten-Pears archive wanted to get a sense of Britten\u2019s taste in poets. Who are his preferred writers? What are his favourite time-periods? Which poets did he favour at what age and are there poets he was fond of throughout his working live? They tried to get to answers by putting the data into Microsoft Excel, but quickly reached the limits of the spreadsheet and the available diagram formats. That\u2019s when they approached me to develop a custom tool.\n                <\/dd>\n<dt class=\"medium-2 columns\">Result<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"medium-10 columns\">The final visualisation was well received both by the exhibition visitors, as well as by the curators who were able to gain novel insights into Britten\u2019s use of poets.\n                <\/dd>\n<\/dl><\/div>\n<div class=\"medium-6 columns\">\n<dl class=\"row\">\n<dt class=\"medium-2 columns\">Process<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"medium-10 columns\">\n<p>Together with the curators we drafted a set of questions that they wanted the visualisation to answer. Based on these requirements I began to make sketches, looking for a diagram format that is able to answer most \u2013 if not all \u2013\u00a0of them.<\/p>\n<p>Analysing this data also meant comparing vastly different timeframes: the life time of Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) and those of the poets, ranging from Sophocles (400BC) to contemporary writers. I experimented with different ways of comparing and navigating time scales using interactive prototypes. These experimented resulted in a reusable timeline layout that is designed to allow a single dataset to be examined based on multiple temporal perspectives and across different timeframes.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"medium-10 medium-offset-1 columns\">\n<div class=\"h_iframe\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ratio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/16x9.gif\"\/><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2a7zONoTjeM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row gap\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For an exhibition on British composer Benjamin Britten\u2019s use of poetry in his works, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brittenpears.org\/home\">Britten-Pears Foundation<\/a> as asked me to look at this topic from a data-driven perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Britten\u2019s Poets is an interactive visualisation that maps poets\u2019 lives against appearances of their works in Britten\u2019s compositions. As part of the exhibition at the Red House in Aldeburgh (UK) we also produced a narrated screencast of the visualisation, which is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brittenpears.org\/resources\/song-visualisation\">accessible online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kraeutli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}