The Hidden Musicians revisited conference
On 12 January we will be presenting a roundtable session at the Hidden Musicians Revisited conference organised by the OU’s Music Department. Trevor Herbert will... Read More
How Star Wars music lets us feel the Force
Ben Winters, The Open University When I finally see the new Star Wars film, I will be keeping my ears open. Although the initial trilogy... Read More
LED Contributor Newsletter
A message from LED’s Principal Investigator, Prof. David Rowland Dear all, We are very nearly at the end of the first, funded stage of the... Read More
The Listening Experience Database Project: Collating the Responses of the “Ordinary Listener” to Prompt New Insights into Musical Experience
Simon Brown, Helen Barlow, Alessandro Adamou and Mathieu d’Aquin have had an article describing the project published in The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual... Read More
Can open-access online publishing be interdisciplinary in both merit and means?
Not long before we set out to build an internal prototype of the Listening Experience Database and bootstrap it with an initial dataset, another research... Read More
The academic book of the future: just a change of delivery or something more?
A keynote speaker at a recent conference was particularly good. In the pub afterwards we were still talking about him. We envied his ability to... Read More
The academic book of the future: the changing face of humanities research
This is the first of several blog posts inspired by Academic Book Week. In this post, we discuss some of the issues the LED project... Read More
