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... Read More
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,... Read More
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,... Read More
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... Read More
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... 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
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