Notebook website (Studio/Stage: Entangling private and public creative spaces through interdisciplinary composition - Portfolio)

Launched: 20 December 2021<br>Latest volume available at the time of submission: Volume 24, to 1 October 2023<br>Notebook website: https://notebook.caitlinrowley.comView by volume: https://notebook.caitlinrowley.com/view-by-notebook/View by piece: https://notebook.caitlinrowley.com/view-by-piece/View piece maps: https://notebook.caitlinrowley.com/piece-map/The notebook website contains scanned images of my composition notebooks – 27 volumes are represented at the time of submission. The earliest three volumes are all altered books and have only been partially uploaded due to copyright considerations; however, the books that use a combined composition notebook and daily working diary format are uploaded as complete volumes. (Planning spreads have been redacted from these volumes, however, for reasons of privacy.)Where work on a composition has been noted within a spread of pages, the image of that spread is categorised by the name of the piece, and every image is also categorised according to the volume it belongs in. This categorisation has allowed me to set up automated views which filter the images in the archive to show only a subset of the whole collection. Three types of views are currently available, each allowing the viewer to click to view the pages in more detail: view by volume, view by piece, and the piece maps. The piece maps display a higher-level view of my composition practice, showing the pacing of projects and the intersections between work on different pieces; they also show more clearly than the other views where significant gaps in composition work occurred.The technical outline document available from this page gives full technical details of the website system, including plugins and elements such as naming conventions which are central to my workflow in processing pages.CaveatAs this website is a living archive of my notebooks, requires the interactivity provided by a web server and at the time of submission contains over 1,000 images of my notebooks’ pages, it has not been possible to provide a downloadable version of it.As a living archive, content will continue to be added to the site approximately every two months. I have therefore noted the date of the last entry added before submission: any notebook page dated after 1 October 2023 (volume 24) should not be considered part of this submission.Finally, while the website has been very reliable since its launch in December 2021, it is nevertheless dependent on the uptime of my website host, and the responsiveness of their technical staff in case of difficulties. These are factors which are beyond my direct control.