by Reed Williams | Jan 11, 2019 | DUR January 2019
The Atlas Historique de la Musique map of Conservatories, Festivals, and Opera Houses in Eastern Europe and Beyond was eye catching because of its simplicity, but was confusing for the same reason. As many others did with their own maps, our goal was for the map to...
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 Carolyn Nuelle | Feb 16, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
In order to create digital maps that are effective in the ways we want them to be, it is first helpful to critique “normal” maps- static, print-based maps- and to analyze how they meet or fail to meet our ideas about what maps should be able to do. The map...
by baumga1 | Feb 15, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Over a single week I have dived head first into the world of musical geography, transitioning from a map novice to a map critic to, finally, a map maker. While this was a very quick turnaround given my complete naïveté with maps only two weeks ago, I feel a sense of...
by Katharina Biermann | Jun 18, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Newly Familiar Faces As I comb through the digitized leaves of various newspaper archives, complimentary of the French Bibliothèque Nationale, there are certain elusive figures who reappear with striking frequencies. One of these is a gentleman by the name of Feodor...
