The Listening Experience Database
Lead Research Organisation:
The Open University
Department Name: Faculty of Arts
Abstract
The project is run by members of the Music and English Departments at The Open University (OU) in collaboration with researchers at the Royal College of Music (RCM). The distinctive feature of the evidence that this project seeks to capture and analyse is its unsolicited nature - this is evidence recorded not for the purposes of influencing an audience, such as a review, or some other published form of musical opinion, but a record of an essentially private experience, either of an individual, or of a group of which the individual recording the event was part. The evidence is contained in a variety of sources, including private diaries, correspondence and oral testimony, which is searchable in electronic collections such as EEBO, British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, as well as in public archives such as those held in the British Library and in private sources. This is the first time that evidence of this sort has been systematically collected and documented. It will shed new light on a number of areas of investigation. For example, it will provide music and social historians and social scientists with the evidence to form a deeper understanding of the effect of music on professional and amateur musicians. It will also provide a greater understanding of the way in which music has been used domestically, or as part of religious ritual, and it will reveal the impact of new technologies on the listening habits of individuals. The project will be of benefit to students of performance history, who will gain further insight into the settings and the way in which music was performed. Educationalists will be provided with a range of material relevant to the way in which music is studied and learned and social historians will be able to gain further insight into the extent to which music is valued and understood in society.
In its first three-year phase the project is restricted to sources in the English language, but within that constraint the project team is interested in evidence from any historical period concerning music of any sort - 'classical', popular, the music of non-western cultures, etc. The evidence will be entered into a searchable database that will be 'live' to the public at the end of the first year of the project on the project's website. A particular feature of this research is that it builds on the OU's Reading Experience Database (RED) project (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/RED/index.html) and actively encourages members of the public to participate. The main reason for inviting this form of public involvement is the belief that many of the most interesting accounts of listening will be found in small archives and in sources owned by private individuals. Members of the public are invited to submit examples of listening experiences (appropriately verified, for example, by scanned copies of the relevant material) to the project's website. The project team will then verify the evidence prior to including it in the database.
The findings of the project will not only be made available in academic publications, but will also be disseminated through symposia at the end of years 1 and 2, a conference at the end of year 3, public lectures, a proposed radio broadcast series, and regular updates posted on the project's website. The project will run for three years initially, but it is planned to develop it thereafter, having established a network of international participants - both scholars and members of the public. The eventual aim is to create a multi-lingual and multi-national database of listening experiences.
In its first three-year phase the project is restricted to sources in the English language, but within that constraint the project team is interested in evidence from any historical period concerning music of any sort - 'classical', popular, the music of non-western cultures, etc. The evidence will be entered into a searchable database that will be 'live' to the public at the end of the first year of the project on the project's website. A particular feature of this research is that it builds on the OU's Reading Experience Database (RED) project (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/RED/index.html) and actively encourages members of the public to participate. The main reason for inviting this form of public involvement is the belief that many of the most interesting accounts of listening will be found in small archives and in sources owned by private individuals. Members of the public are invited to submit examples of listening experiences (appropriately verified, for example, by scanned copies of the relevant material) to the project's website. The project team will then verify the evidence prior to including it in the database.
The findings of the project will not only be made available in academic publications, but will also be disseminated through symposia at the end of years 1 and 2, a conference at the end of year 3, public lectures, a proposed radio broadcast series, and regular updates posted on the project's website. The project will run for three years initially, but it is planned to develop it thereafter, having established a network of international participants - both scholars and members of the public. The eventual aim is to create a multi-lingual and multi-national database of listening experiences.
Planned Impact
The project will have a wide range of potential beneficiaries:
1. Performers. The project will provide performers with insights into the way in which previous audiences have responded to music. While musical reception has previously been restricted to reviews and limited feedback to individuals and groups, performers will have access through this project to a variety of responses not previously collected at scale. The RCM's networks will provide a direct route to this audience.
2. Libraries and museums. The project will demonstrate the usefulness of archival sources held by these institutions and provide material for exhibitions/displays. Many of the sources that are relevant to this project will be held in small, local archives, and it is the intention of the project team, through extensive public engagement activities, to encourage users of these archives to contribute to the database. An RCM colleague has an established route into this network through chairmanship of a working group of the International Association of Music Libraries.
3. Creative industries. The project will provide an entirely new way of understanding the impact of music on individuals and the social and cultural groups to which they belong. It is a new type of data source, and we anticipate that it will have a real and material benefit to the creative and media industry. It could, for example, add a new level of sophistication to the way in which music is combined with other aesthetic and dramatic elements in film, theatre and broadcast media. Links between the creative industries and the RCM already exist and those links will be strengthened further by the involvement of members of the Project Advisory Board.
4. Education. The project will provide new routes to educating about music, its cultural and social value and the way it is understood. It has potential for impacting significantly on the way that music is taught by casting light on the way music affects people and inspiring new approaches to teaching. At present, practical music teaching starts from the basis that music is an art form and then applies this to a range of contexts. This project suggests the possibility of a much more accessible starting point rooted in the intimate listening experience of the individual. Members of the Project Team are well-placed to develop this theme through their involvement in international networks of music educators.
5. Informal learning. Through open-access media the public will have previously-unavailable opportunities to learn of the impact of music on others, provoking reflection on their own listening experiences and habits, and prompting personal experimentation with different modes of listening, for example, to live performance, 'static' listening to physically fixed recorded sound sources and listening involving mobile technologies. Through its extensive networks, the planned BBC series, other media accessed through journalism, and public lectures the Project team is well-placed to enter into dialogue of this sort.
6. Cultural policy makers. State funding, through the Arts Council in England, for example, is premised on the assumption that listening to music, whatever the genre concerned, is 'effective' in some sense. The project will throw new light on this assumption and enable policy makers to gain a clearer understanding of how and why music matters in the lives of listeners. It will therefore represent a significant advance in the empirical basis of music policy making.
1. Performers. The project will provide performers with insights into the way in which previous audiences have responded to music. While musical reception has previously been restricted to reviews and limited feedback to individuals and groups, performers will have access through this project to a variety of responses not previously collected at scale. The RCM's networks will provide a direct route to this audience.
2. Libraries and museums. The project will demonstrate the usefulness of archival sources held by these institutions and provide material for exhibitions/displays. Many of the sources that are relevant to this project will be held in small, local archives, and it is the intention of the project team, through extensive public engagement activities, to encourage users of these archives to contribute to the database. An RCM colleague has an established route into this network through chairmanship of a working group of the International Association of Music Libraries.
3. Creative industries. The project will provide an entirely new way of understanding the impact of music on individuals and the social and cultural groups to which they belong. It is a new type of data source, and we anticipate that it will have a real and material benefit to the creative and media industry. It could, for example, add a new level of sophistication to the way in which music is combined with other aesthetic and dramatic elements in film, theatre and broadcast media. Links between the creative industries and the RCM already exist and those links will be strengthened further by the involvement of members of the Project Advisory Board.
4. Education. The project will provide new routes to educating about music, its cultural and social value and the way it is understood. It has potential for impacting significantly on the way that music is taught by casting light on the way music affects people and inspiring new approaches to teaching. At present, practical music teaching starts from the basis that music is an art form and then applies this to a range of contexts. This project suggests the possibility of a much more accessible starting point rooted in the intimate listening experience of the individual. Members of the Project Team are well-placed to develop this theme through their involvement in international networks of music educators.
5. Informal learning. Through open-access media the public will have previously-unavailable opportunities to learn of the impact of music on others, provoking reflection on their own listening experiences and habits, and prompting personal experimentation with different modes of listening, for example, to live performance, 'static' listening to physically fixed recorded sound sources and listening involving mobile technologies. Through its extensive networks, the planned BBC series, other media accessed through journalism, and public lectures the Project team is well-placed to enter into dialogue of this sort.
6. Cultural policy makers. State funding, through the Arts Council in England, for example, is premised on the assumption that listening to music, whatever the genre concerned, is 'effective' in some sense. The project will throw new light on this assumption and enable policy makers to gain a clearer understanding of how and why music matters in the lives of listeners. It will therefore represent a significant advance in the empirical basis of music policy making.
Organisations
Publications
Golding R
(2020)
'Appeasing the unstrung mental faculties': listening to music in nineteenth-century lunatic asylums
in Nineteenth-Century Music Review
Barlow H
(2020)
'Praise the Lord! We are a Musical Nation': The Welsh Working Classes and Religious Singing
in Nineteenth-Century Music Review
Fraser, R.
(2017)
'Pulse music': Listening to Steve Reich listening to Africa
Rowland D
(2020)
British Listeners c. 1780-1830
in Nineteenth-Century Music Review
Daga E
(2019)
Capturing Themed Evidence, a Hybrid Approach
Barlow, H
(2016)
From the Band of Musick to the Concert Party ca. 1780-1918: Musical Entertainment in the British Army
in Music in Art
Description | The project established a linked open data (LOD) database of people's experiences of listening to music across any period, culture or musical genre. Further funding was awarded leading to the expansion and technical development of the database. |
Exploitation Route | The database has attracted a broad spectrum of interest amongst colleagues across various academic disciplines that share a common concern with music reception and the function of music in society. This was evidenced by the delegates who attended the project conference, held in October 2015. The project also has a number of volunteer contributors outside the academic world, who continue to submit material to the database. The project has started to make a significant contribution to the global body of linked open data - in particular, we anticipate that it will fill some important gaps in musicological linked open data. |
Sectors | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
URL | http://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/ |
Description | As noted under 'further funding', the project received a second grant AH/N006720/1, and the new phase of the project started in 2016 and concluded in 2019. Impacts from the first phase were developed through the activities and strategies of the second phase. The project team contributed to a BBC World Service radio series on music and culture, The Music of Time, which was broadcast in 2018 with international audience figures of 6 million to date. There is continuing evidence of use and contribution to the database by a non-academic audience, and we continue to foster and monitor this. The number of unique IP addresses accessing the database has risen by over 5000 in the last year to 35679. Requests for LED data from the linked data endpoint have risen from 1691 distinct IP addresses to 1852; this figure is necessarily lower than that for use of the database itself, as these are advanced users dealing with linked open data resources. The database is also used in teaching at the Open University. OU undergraduate music students are asked to use the database for basic research purposes (to date, 622 students), while Music MA students (to date, 496) study the process of development of the database in a module on digital humanities techniques, as well as using it for research. The Open University also makes a version of the Music MA material available as an open access module on its OpenLearn platform - this includes a section on the LED project, and to date 1668 users have enrolled. (See also the annual ResearchFish return for AH/N006720/1.) |
First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
Impact Types | Cultural |
Description | (Polifonia) - Polifonia: a digital harmoniser for musical heritage knowledge |
Amount | € 3,046,154 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 101004746 |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 04/2024 |
Description | AHRC Standard Grants |
Amount | £788,772 (GBP) |
Funding ID | AH/N006720/1 |
Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2016 |
End | 02/2019 |
Title | The Listening Experience Database - beta version |
Description | Publicly available beta version of the database. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2013 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | In 2018 there have been 8,893 distinct IP addressed visiting the database site. |
URL | https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/ |
Title | Linked open data |
Description | The data on listening experiences and their associated contexts are available as open data for consumption by software applications and by people. They are published using the open standards of Linked Data, such as RDF for representation and SPARQL for querying, and are hosted on data.open.ac.uk. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Impact | Hard to say yet - we anticipate that this will become clearer as the amount of data in the database increases. However, in 2018, 388 distinct IP addresses requested LED Database data from the Linked Data endpoint, and since this reflects advanced users dealing with linked open data resources, we are pleased with this level of usage. |
URL | http://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/linkeddata/# |
Description | 'A Vital Necessity': World War I Nurses and Their Experience of Music |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | A paper given by Helen Barlow to the Centre for 19th-Century Studies conference 'A Great Divide or a Longer Nineteenth Century? Music, Britain and the First World War', St John's College, Durham University, 21 January 2017. The paper prompted interest in the LED project and several networking possibilities with colleagues and students working on WWI topics. It will be published (2018/2019) in the proceedings of the conference. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | 13th Conference of the Research Center for Music Iconography |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Dr Helen Barlow (LED Research Associate) gave a paper entitled 'From the band of musick to the concert party: musical entertainment in the British Army, c. 1780-1918'. This resulted in questions and discussion. The paper will reach a wider audience as it is to be published in the 2016 edition of the RCMI journal Music in Art. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | 13th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of British Columbia |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Questions and discussion with academic peers. Peers expressed interest in project and noted its potential significance for historical/musicological research. The paper will reach a wider audience as it has been selected for publication in The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review 2015. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | 41st Association of European Conservatoires Annual Congress, Budapest |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation about the project by RA Simon Brown. The presentation prompted several expressions of interest in further involvement with the project which the project team will pursue. Several contacts were made with conservatoires interested in contributing material from their archives to the database. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | AHRC poster session |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Poster session disseminating eight AHRC-funded music projects. A number of requests for further information. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Annual Bresslauer Lecture: '"Concerning that we cannot count": reception, information and meaning'. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Around 100 people attended the lecture (a mix of academics and the general public), stimulating questions and discussion. Attendees expressed an interest in getting involved in the project as crowdsourcing participants in order to populate the database with entries on American music and jazz in particular. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Article in Upbeat - The Magazine for the Royal College of Music |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The article (Autumn 2013 issue, p. 11), by research associate Simon Brown, prompted interest from a diverse group including staff, students, alumni, friends of the RCM and professionals in the music industry. Hard to say, as the article went out before the database was open to the public and indeed before we had a full range of analytic tools for monitoring website use. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Article in the Open University Music Society Journal |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The article, written by research associate Helen Barlow (in the Open University Music Society Journal, Spring 2014, Number 79, ISSN 09647856, p. 17), prompted interest from OU music students and alumni. There was a spike in visits to the website around the time of its publication. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | BBC Radio 3 Music Matters |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Radio broadcast, Prof Trevor Herbert (co-opted project team member) in discussion with Tom Service, 28 June 2014. There was a spike in visits to the website on 28 June. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b047wn7g |
Description | British Library Digital Conversations |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | PI Prof David Rowland and RA Simon Brown participated in a Digital Conversations event at the BL on 21 May 2015, sharing ideas with fellow participants who are also working in the field of digital music research. Peers expressed interest in the project and noted particularly that it sets out to do more than simply be another 'big data' project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Cheltenham Music Festival talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | About 20 people attended a panel discussion which disseminated information about the project and stimulated interest from potential crowdsourcing volunteers and from the Festival organisers. There were some requests for new user accounts, and we are looking into a posisble collaboration with the Festival organisers who are keen for us to include relevant audience feedback in the database. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/node/48/ |
Description | Daily Telegraph feature article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Feature article on the LED project by Co-I Ivan Hewett in Daily Telegraph, (Review section) 11/01/2014, entitled 'How did we learn to listen to music?'. The project was also discussed in the leader column of the same edition. The article also appeared in the Daily Telegraph online. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Digital Humanities in practice seminar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Twenty to thirty people attended the seminar in person, and it was also made available as a podcast (see link below). The seminar disseminated information about the project and the issues we were deliberating about at that point, and stimulated discussion with peers with similar interests in digital humanities issues. Links were made with fellow researchers with interests in (a) data mining of social media, and (b) the development of OCR tools for handwritten text. These are being pursued, and we anticipate that there could be significant future impact from the latter. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://podcast.open.ac.uk/pod/2844 |
Description | Grove Forum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Around 20 people attended the talk, stimulating questions and discussion. Attendees expressed an interest in becoming crowdsourcing participants. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | IC Radio interview, Imperial College |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Research Associate Simon Brown was interviewed about the project by IC Radio, broadcast internally by Imperial College but also available online to the public (see link below). It developed into an interesting discussion with the radio presenters. The presenters signed up for LED user accounts and quoted a number of listening experiences from the database. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | International Semantic Web Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Dr Alessandro Adamou (Research Associate) gave a 'live demo', prompting discussion with semantic web research peers. Interest expressed in the reuse of LED's linked data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://iswc2014.semanticweb.org/ |
Description | Lecture to MMus in Performance, Royal College of Music |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Research Associate Simon Brown gave a lecture to the students on the RCM's MMus in Performance, entitled 'A performer's guide to the digital humanities', which led to questions and discussion. The lecture contributed the Critical Portfolio module by developing students' study of digital humanities methods in musicology, and introducing them to the LED database and its rationale. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Listening Experience Database blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This is an ongoing blog contributed to by all LED project team members. Blog posts are frequently retweeted. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2014 |
URL | http://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/node/ |
Description | Listening to Handel through the centuries |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Open University music study day with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, in partnership with Glasgow UNESCO City of Music at City of Music Studio, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 29 November 2018. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Listening to music: people, practices and experience |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | This was the project conference, held at the Royal College of Music, London, 24-25 October 2015. Thirty papers were given. The event brought together scholars from a wide range of disciplines who all share an interest in the study of listening. It sparked lively discussion and very positive feedback. A link to the full programme is given below. A volume of conference proceedings is being prepared for publication. A number of connections were made with other scholars and projects which we will sustain and develop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3LSN8t28dHzZ3ZUVE1JdlFDWXc/view |
Description | Listening to street music in history: the Listening Experience Database Project and the search for primary sources |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Paper given at Connected Communities: Street Music conference UEA Norwich by project team member Helen Barlow |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Music MA study day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | The OU Music MA presents LED as a case study, and the 2014 cohort of students were given the opportunity to come to the Royal College of Music Library and research the collections for primary source material which they entered into the database. Familiarised students with the database and yielded a number of database entries. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Music in 19th Century Britain Conference, Cardiff University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Dr Helen Barlow (Research Associate) gave a paper called '"Drove Mrs Bell-Martin to hear the Band": sources for experiences of listening to music in the long nineteenth century', which prompted questions and discussion. Several colleagues expressed interest in the project and how they or their institutions might be involved. One person has subsequently become a volunteer contributor, and another has pledged material for the database (by agreement with his publisher, and subsequent to its publication in his forthcoming book in 2015). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Music in 19thC Britain Conference, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Research Associate Dr Helen Barlow gave a paper entitled 'Writing spiritual and cultural identity through musical experience: the case of the Waddington sisters'. The paper prompted questions and discussion. There was interest from a number of colleagues in ways in which their institutions might collaborate with/contribute o othe project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Music therapy and the military c.1850-c.1918 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Paper given by project team member Helen Barlow at online conference 'Music, Mind and Body in 19thC Britain', hosted by Open University, September 2020 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Music therapy and the military c.1850-c.1918 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Paper given by project team member Helen Barlow to RMA Conference, University of Newcastle, September 2021 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Open University alumni autumn event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | About 75 people attended this event, many of whom viewed the LED stand and stopped to talk about the project with the LED representatives. Attendees expressed an interest in becoming crowdsourcing participants. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Open University alumni summer event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | About 100 poeple attended this event, many of whom viewed the LED 'stall' and discussed the project with the LED representative. A number of attendees expressed an interest in becoming crowdsourcing participants. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Open University alumni summer event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Guests were able to explore the database and ask questions about the project. A number of expressions of interest in supplying material for the database. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Panel discussion, Digital Music Lab 1st Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | About 30 researchers attended the workshop, and discussed a range of issues around the central theme of big muisc data projects. Hard to say - the event was targeted at the academic community specifically, so immediate impact in the strict sense (beyond academia) was not intended. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://dml.city.ac.uk/workshop/ |
Description | RMA and LUCEM study day 'Amateur Music-Making in the British Provinces', University of Leeds |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Paper by project team member Prof Trevor Herbert on 'The military and provincial music in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries'. Prompted questions and discussion. Colleagues expressed interest in the project and its potential to inform historical musicology. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Social media |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | On Twitter we currently (August 2015) have 1,436 followers. We also make use of Facebook and have a regular project blog. We have 124 registered users (people with accounts to contribute to the database), of whom about 10% are active contributors. All registered users receive a regular (roughly monthly) project newsletter from us. In part due to social media activity, we have 124 registered users (people with accounts to contribute to the database), of whom about 10% are active contributors. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2014 |
URL | http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/LED |
Description | Talk to the Harvard University Book History Group: "Reception, quantity and meaning" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Around 50 people (a mix of academics and the general public) attended the talk, stimulating questions and discussion. Attendees expressed an interest in becoming involved as crowdsourcing participants in order to populate the database with entries on American music and jazz in particular. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | The Conversation article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 'Listening to the listeners will offer new insights into music' - article introducing the project on The Conversation website http://theconversation.com/listening-to-the-listeners-will-offer-new-insights-into-music-22800 Written by project research associate Helen Barlow. There was a spike in visits to the website. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://theconversation.com/listening-to-the-listeners-will-offer-new-insights-into-music-22800 |
Description | The Humanities and Technology Camp, British Library |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Research Associate Simon Brown co-presented a paper called 'Getting Experienced' with Open University colleagues Francesca Benatti and David King, who are not involved in LED but in a predecessor project, the Reading Experience Database. Led to a useful discussion about database protocols and potential for bias in database content. Developed contacts with the British Library, which we intend to pursue with regard to data mining. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://britishlibrarylabs2015.thatcamp.org |
Description | The Listening Experience Database Project: Wales study day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 25 people from Welsh universities, museums and libraries, as well as members of the public, attended a study day of papers on the LED project, intended to disseminate information and stimulate interest in possible collaborations involving collections in Welsh institutions. See the link below for the programme. We are pursuing a possible collaboration with the National History Museum (St Fagans, Cardiff), which is keen for LED to make use of its oral history material on Welsh traditional music. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/node/48/ |
Description | The Listening Experience Database Symposium 2013 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | First symposium of the LED project. For the programme, see the project website link below. Several requests for user accounts to contribute to the database. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/node/48/ |
Description | The Listening Experience Database Symposium 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Papers were given by members of the project team and there was a keynote from Prof Andrew Prescott, prompting questions and discussion. (The programme can be seen on the project website - address below.) The event sparked a number of expressions of interest in involvement/potential collaborations by academic peers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/node/48/ |
Description | The art of listening |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Article by Co-Investigator Ivan Hewett in BBC Music magazine, April 2016, pp. 48-50. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |