Data Collection

We had a lecture about data collection 1 week ago and we were also shown a speech by Giorgia Lupi where she explained about her experiment along with Stefanie Prosevac where they sent each other letters with data on themselves each day with a specific topic to explore to the limits of data representation.

Of course after this we were given a task based on data as well. We had to keep a record of whatever we do during our daily life and represent it visually.

Since I'm such a music/sound freak... I decided to take note of that.

A bit of background: I'm mostly a fan of metal music but as I grew up I started listening to many genres more like blues, country, opera, classic, and even pop and synthpop occassionally.

So, I noticed that I'm not always listening to metal or rock music, sometimes I'm listening to songs without any distorted guitar. If you ask me about my favorite genres I would say it's industrial music (Dawn of Ashes, Nine Inch Nails, Psyclon Nine, Marilyn Manson etc..) and also extreme metal (Dimmu Borgir, Septicflesh, Cradle of Filth, Behemoth, Aeternam, etc..) so I was sort of putting this into question.

So I've actually simplify the music into moods based on both lyrics and atmosphere so sometimes there are some for example symphonic death metal as emotional because of the emotional orchestras in the background. I've later erased the sad category cuz I felt like it could be within the emotional category as well I'll explain the rest in more details later. I've also added a scale and measured how much I've enjoyed each music each time from 1-10. None goes below 5 xD

This is the final piece in the end, I made it like a music sheet, I know some of the basics of reading a sheet music so I've used the symbols but I've re interpret it such as the sharp symbol # to represent the intensity of the mood at night for some reason, the dot which represent a 'let ring' sort of thing for the afternoon since... the day is just pursuing itself a flat for noon cuz somehow every songs feels slightly less intense at that time and a rest to indicate the fact that I didn't listen to anything at all. The use to be some divisions in the music sheet between chorus, pre-chorus or whatever, here the divisions represent a day and the M and N is the time signatures, here it represents how I've recorded it, like from morning till night. And the higher the note is the more I've enjoyed the music at that time. I did that so that in the end it looks just like a colorful music sheet which you can actually play it if you know how xD

You'll notice that the sexual category is missing, I actually have a lot of sexual songs and use to listen to them quite often but just somehow this week was focused more on the aggressive mood.

There's also a mixture of random category mixed with other moods this is like... within this random playlist there was mostly aggressive songs. Usually my random playlist include a whole album from an artists that why most time it's just one mood.

This data representation is actually really focused on me so... yeah.... that was interesting.....

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BORING DETAILS

Okay... so.... there's many in between details... like what is the ecstasy genres...

It's basically any sort of music with a trance like....sound to it.

it can be dark like Dawn of Ashes - Scars on Scars, or sad like IAMX - Wildest Wind or something sorta happy/mysterious like Our Last Night - Oak Island.

Or some synthpop such as Ministry - Revenge

Calm involve songs like Akira Yamaoka's instrumentals for the video game Silent Hill or songs like Eivor - Rain or even Of Mice & Men - When You Can't Sleep at Night. Mostly atmospheric songs.

It also include the classical music and opera.

Dark involves any sort of modern dark industrial music like Ritual Aesthetic, Sarcophagic, Freakangel, Beyond the Fallen among others.

Might also involve black metal music and some death metal music that are quite dark like Hate - Leviathan

Among the Aggressive there's also some metalcore songs such as Greeley Estate, The Dead Rabbitts, Motionless in White, Kuza and maybe some Visual Kei Japanese Band such as Dir En Grey, Nocturnal Bloodlust, Dezert among others.

Happy songs include some quite happy metalcore such as Asking Alexandria, blessthefall and some pop music or whatever.

The Mature include mostly blues, alternative rock, grunge music, Indi and some old school heavy metal all that people would classify as grandpa's music.

Emotional include gothic music like Tristania - Deadlock, Doom metal like Remembrance, weird gothic opera death metal like Igorrr - IeuD.

Some symphonic death metal like Dawn of Ashes - Core of the Black Sun

and of course some emo songs like blessthefall - A Message to the Unknown or even My Chemical Romance - Helena

Maybe some slow rock/heavy metal like Whitesnack - Too Many Tears or pop music like Kerli - Feral Heart.