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- Composition with complex data : a contribution on the mapping problem through practice-based researchPublication . Ransbeeck, Samuel Van; Dias, António de SousaComposition with complex data is a field of computer music composition/interactive art that uses extra-musical data from various sources like stock exchange data, weather data or seismic data. Despite the fascination that one can have in his exciting field of composition, there is still a lack of data management applications for artistic use. Hence, one is generally forced to create one’s own applications, at the expense of the time that should be spent in the artistic side of the work. As the technology can be part of the work but never the sole constituent, we decided to develop a toolbox, DataScapR, which allows artists to work easily with data, helping them in focusing on the artistic side. This toolbox will help the user to quickly advance beyond the technical development and focus on the artistic side of the project. This project consists of four components: a theoretical framework for sonification art, a state of the art and discussion on mapping techniques, the development of a sonification toolbox for composers who wish to use complex data (more specifically stock market data) as the source material for their music and a series of works as case studies to show the capabilities of the toolbox. Bringing theory and practice, art and technology together, this project can be seen as a practice-based one embedded within a theoretical framework.