Visualizing Joyce's Ulysses: A Graphic Score for 'Sirens'
2025-01-12
Artist Emily Fuhrman presents a visualization of the structure of James Joyce's Ulysses, specifically the 'Sirens' episode, as a musical fugue. She tracks and classifies 99 recurring words and syllables as leitmotifs, arranging them in a graphic score based on their distance from a root sound. This interactive project visualizes how these sounds evoke the sensory presence of different characters at different times.