
Laurence Sterne diagrams the first five volumes of Tristram Shandy.

Helen DeWitt, Chart 2008
The things that drive us crazy don’t do so once a month, or once a week, or even once a day: we have to fight them minute by minute, hour by hour.
In a fascinating piece over at Incongruous Quarterly, DeWitt recalls charting her year. The red blocks signify days she didn’t smoke, didn’t drink, or went to the gym. Very Lodwickian.
[The Große Fuge is] an absolutely contemporary piece of music that will be contemporary forever.
-Igor Stravinsky
Nice visualization, too.
A visual interpretation of Erik Satie’s famous piano suite… The movement of each column maps the physical activity of each the pianist’s fingers respectively. The pitch of each key struck is represented by an assigned colour.