The data-illustration presented below was created with excruciating attention, constantly play-stop of the songs to count, note down the time of talking, singing, or just music/sounds. I am not a (sound-)technician who certainly could have done it much more accurate than I did, but by handling it the way I do it makes me get into a state of focus and flow, which is how I can optimize my design.
The elements speech 
, singing 
, and sound 
were coded by different sizes of ‘bits’ in a somehow Roman numeral manner. The smallest bit being 1 second, then sizing up to 5, 15, 30 seconds, and a bigger ‘bit’ of 1 minute. This way the lengths of the songs are different from the actual time-measurement. Overlapping of the different bits appear when there’s singing or talking on top of the sound/music.
is the sound that the Martian fighting machines make and is to be heard throughout the musical. The coding is simple: every letter stands for its audible duration in a song (one second equals one letter). The titles of the songs are in the upper row, the numbers correspondent to the rows of bits.
The small shapes 
which appear above each row of bits are the elements that code the characters which or/and are talking/singing. These characters can be found at the left of all rows.
