by Benjamin Van Wienen | Jan 30, 2019 | DUR January 2019
This past interim studying H.T. Burleigh has been a whirlwind. Starting out the first week of class, I definitely felt overwhelmed by the magnitude of work we had to undertake. Especially coming off of the East Asian music mapping project in which I had a rough time...
by Benjamin Van Wienen | Jan 22, 2019 | DUR January 2019
As we move on to the final stages of our Musical Geographies class, I have assumed the specialist role of “bibliographer.” This means that I survey all of our data entries and compile a comprehensive bibliography of every source we have used in our...
by Benjamin Van Wienen | Jan 16, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Now that we have moved onto the Burleigh stage of our research interim, we are getting into the real, fun, and juicy stuff! This is the main project of our course, and I am seriously enjoying it so far. My research process thus far has been looking into historical...
by Benjamin Van Wienen | Jan 11, 2019 | DUR January 2019
In my last blog post, I posted the state of the map that I had made featuring opera houses and companies in East Asia. Since then, I added a few more points that locate centers of opera in East Asia, combined my data with my partner’s, and tidied up the map. ...
by Benjamin Van Wienen | Jan 7, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Thus far, my experience making my first map was frustrating primarily because of the research involved. Mapping opera companies of East Asia, much of my work involved reading websites in foreign languages (Chinese, Korean, Japanese), finding mentions of obscure opera...
