The Listening Experience Database Project – Wales Study Day

Friday 23 May 2014, 10.30-3.45

The Open University in Wales, Cardiff

Wales is stereotyped as ‘the land of song’. But how have Welsh people responded to listening to music? And how have people, Welsh or otherwise, responded to listening to the music of Wales?

The Listening Experience Database (LED) project http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/LED is holding a study day at the Open University in Wales. LED, an AHRC-funded collaboration between The Open University and the Royal College of Music, is bringing together a mass of data about people’s experiences of listening to music of all kinds, in any historical period and any culture, but the LED Wales Study Day aims to explore Welsh dimensions to the experience of listening to music. 

The day will be as relevant to historians and those with an interest in Welsh culture as it will to musicians and musicologists, as well as to library and archive professionals whose collections may hold relevant material, and anyone interested in digital humanities.

Speakers will include Prof. David Rowland (LED principal investigator) and Prof. Trevor Herbert (both of The Open University), and Prof. E. Wyn James (Cardiff University). 

The Study Day will begin with an overview of the project, followed by a series of short papers from members of the project team and external speakers, which will consider techniques and approaches for researching listening experiences and suggest Welsh angles on the experience of listening to music. The day will conclude with a discussion of potential future directions for the project in a Welsh context. 

For a detailed programme, including brief abstracts of the papers, and directions to the Open University in Wales, go to http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/LED, Events. 

Places are limited – to book, please email [log in to unmask] . Booking closes on 11 May. Lunch will be provided. 

We look forward to welcoming you to the Open University in Wales on 23 May.

With apologies for cross-posting.

Dr Helen Barlow │ Research Associate, The Listening Experience Database │ The Open University, Faculty of Arts