[Air-L] Music Trends

[Craig Hamilton]

Hi Tatiana,

(Hi also to the group, I’ve recently joined)

This is the area I’m looking at in my PhD at BCU. I’m looking at the experience of music listeners with a particular focus on digital environments and algorithmic curation. I’m about to go away for the weekend with my family, but if you can wait until next week I can pull together a list of articles and papers that might be of use, which I’ll share here.  There isn’t a great deal about music specifically - these services are still quite new (Spotify Discover is only a year old, for instance) - but there is a lot of stuff related to the idea. For instance, Jeremy Wade Morris’ ‘Curation by Code’ article (http://ecs.sagepub.com/content/18/4-5/446.short) is worth a look. Very quickly, there are two decent non-academic articles about how Spotify Discover works that I’ve found useful - particularly in terms of looking at how these services are framed in terms of industry rhetoric: http://qz.com/571007/the-magic-that-makes-spotifys-discover-weekly-playlists-so-damn-good/ . I’ve also written a public-facing, non-academic piece on my project website that takes a broad look at this http://harkive.org/can-algorithms-make-you-cry/

Hope this is useful in the meantime, but I’ll do something a little more structured next week when I’m back in the office

Kind regards
Craig


On 2 Jun 2016, at 18:14, Tati Tosi <tati at pluggedresearch.com<mailto:tati at pluggedresearch.com>> wrote:

Dear all,

Do you have any good references towards music trends using Spotify or
Soundcloud?

Thanks a lot,



Tatiana Tosi
(11) 99965-0082
http://about.me/tatiana_tosi
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