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DESCRIPTION:Click for Latest Location Information: http://edw2014.dataversity.net/sessionPop.cfm?confid=79&proposalid=6305\nMusic is a universal part of humanity that bridges cultures and time, and every person has a built-in metronome—their heartbeat.  Music is a powerful expression of personal emotion, as well as cultural and generational identity. It is unparalleled as a memory aid, it wordlessly conveys story, and it promotes societal coherence as people share it. It might even be said that music sustains life. Yet to become proficient as a musician is a long, arduous, sometimes-solitary, but ultimately satisfying journey.\nMusic and data share many qualities. Each provides interpretation, understanding, description, identity… you can tell any number of stories with the same music or data in just the same way that a textual phrase (e.g., I want to dance with you) changes meaning depending on which word receives the greatest emphasis.  Music is also a storyteller.  As Philip describes…“Music does this through dynamics—anacrusis (lead in, prologue), crusis (climax), and metacrusis (follow-through, epilogue)—through pitch and through rhythm.”  While Goethe described architecture as “frozen music” then in many ways the reverse is true…music as liquid architecture comes to new life with each interpretation and playing, and our emotional connection to it changes with each variation.  \nPhilip Sheppard joins us to speak about the glories and potential of music, and to share the artistic metaphors that might be drawn to advantage in our world of data and software.  He also comes to implore the standard-bearers of the IT world to incorporate, not music per se, but analogous richness and expression into their endeavors.
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SUMMARY:Information Symphony: Music, Data and Meaning
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