David Bowie is the king of musical reinvention. For more than 40 years, he's created a collection of music that is difficult to pigeon-hole

Composer Alexis Kirke and electronic music pioneer Martyn Ware came together to analyze the data of Bowie's shape-shifting oeuvre. They created musical sonifications — audio displays of non-sound data, such as heart rate monitors — from the data to gain a greater understanding of one of the music industry's greatest chameleons.

Kirke and Ware searched for patterns in Bowie’s album sales and lyrics to translate them into music. They sifted through numerical data and did statistical analyses of elements, such as emotional content of lyrics and the usage of major and minor keys, to determine how the singer’s music has transformed emotionally over time Read more...

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