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25 Oct 2018

Listening Experience Database one-day conference: Digital methodologies for understanding musical experience

21 November, 9.30-16.30 School of Advanced Study, University of London Speakers include Jane Winters, David de Roure and Tim Crawford. The event is free, but please register via Eventbrite, where...

12 Sep 2018

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Submit your visualisation to the @listenexp Data Hackathon by 15 Oct.

The Listening Experience Database (LED) Project (https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/) is an effort to collate people’s private experiences of listening to music. Exploring a wide variety of sources, the project has collected over...

14 Jul 2017

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Contributor Newsletter July 2017

Dear all, Here’s the latest newsletter from the Listening Experience Database project. LED1 conference proceedings The proceedings of last year’s conference ‘Listening to music: people, practices and experiences’ are due...

21 Dec 2016

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LED Contributor Newsletter December 2016

Dear all, Here’s the latest newsletter from the Listening Experience Database project. LED1 conference proceedings Preparation of the proceedings of last year’s conference ‘Listening to music: people, practices and experiences’...

11 Jul 2016

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LED Contributor Newsletter July 2016

LED phase 2 It’s a while since we’ve sent a newsletter round, but for those of you who don’t already know, we’re delighted to say that we did indeed get...

04 Jan 2016

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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 was justly celebrated for its...

23 Dec 2015

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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 Listening Experience Database project. Thank...

17 Nov 2015

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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 project had kicked off, which...

11 Nov 2015

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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 distil complex ideas (Adorno et...

07 Nov 2015

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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 team has encountered in doing...

28 Sep 2015

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British Library Labs Symposium (2015)

The Symposium showcases innovative projects which use the British Library’s digital content, and provides a platform for development, networking and debate in the Digital Scholarship field. Dr Adam Farquhar will...

24 Jul 2015

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Listening to music: people, practices and experiences

The conference is held as part of the Listening Experience Database (LED) Project www.open.ac.uk/Arts/LED The keynote speaker will be Professor Simon Frith. How have people responded to listening to music in...

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