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The Listening Experience Database (LED) project is a collaboration between The Open University, the Royal College of Music and (in its second phase) the University of Glasgow. It was awarded a £0.75m grant over three years from 2012-15 and a further grant of £0.98m from 2016-19 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

The main purpose of the project is to develop a database, freely searchable by the public, which will bring together a mass of data about people’s experiences of listening to music of all kinds, in any historical period and any culture. The project involves the general public by using crowdsourcing as one of the ways in which data is collected. The database went live for public use on the project website in December 2013.

The latest phase of the project takes a more specific historical and cultural focus: its title is ‘Listening and British cultures: listeners’ responses to music in Britain, c. 1700-2018’ (please see the Project Team page for the particular research topics). However, the database itself is still open to listening experiences from any period, culture, musical genre or country.

Project Team (2016-2019)

The current project team is led by principal investigator Professor David Rowland of the Open University’s Music Department. It includes a number of co-investigators and research associates from the OU’s Music Department and its Knowledge Media Institute (KMI), from the Royal College of Music and the University of Glasgow.

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The Open University

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Royal College of Music

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University of Glasgow

Founded in 1451, the University of Glasgow is the fourth oldest university in the English-speaking world. Today we are a broad-based, research intensive institution with a global reach.

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AHRC

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Team Members (2012-2015)

The original project team was led by principal investigator Professor David Rowland of the Open University’s Music Department. It included a number of co-investigators and research associates from the OU’s Music and English Departments and its Knowledge Media Institute (KMI), and from the Royal College of Music.

The Listening Experience Database

The aim of this site is to provide an international, interdisciplinary and inter-professional organisation for promoting the scholarly, scientific, and/or artistic study of listening to Music. The network is closely associated with the Listening Experience Database project and it works with other affiliated academic organisations around the world to support the study of listening to music.

The Listening Experience Database (LED) is an open and freely searchable database that brings together a mass of data about people’s experiences of listening to music of all kinds, in any historical period and any culture.

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