First update in a long while! Yes folks, I'm still here, and I've come to fill you in on the last few days in which I didn't get the chance to post updates.
I conducted my focus groups on Wednesday, and they produced very interesting results. Only a couple of them had any notable music experience, and I selected three contrasting pieces to show to them. Interestingly, every participant seemed to pick up on an overall mood or theme of any given music sample, but they all had very different ways of describing them. I'll save the full details for the paper in order to keep this post from getting too long.
Next, on Thursday, I FINALLY got around to my interview with Greg McCleary. This was undoubtedly the most extensive interview I conducted, he and I managed to talk for nearly 40 minutes on the questions I had prepared. I have a full audio recording of our conversation which I plan to sift through and post the key bits of.
Finally, as of today, THE EP IS DONE!!! Unfortunately its out too late for me to use it as a vehicle for investigating people's response to homegrown vs. professionally produced music, but I was able to flip this around and instead will be using it as material for what it's like emotionally to be a performer in the studio. In short, I came to this idea because I was recording take after take after take, I found myself getting really strongly invested in whatever I was trying to show in that particular song, and I would tend to reflect that mood through the rest of my daily activities.
It'll be up on this site tomorrow under "The EP." Also, I'm currently finishing up my research paper... wish me luck!
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