Presenting VEM to the Digital Music Research Network workshop in London
We're going to be presenting our work on Valuing Electronic Music at the Digital Music Research Network (DMRN) workshop at Queen Mary, University of London, on Tuesday 16th December. This is the 9th...
View ArticleGlitch Lich performance at the 6 June 2014 live event
Those that were able to attend our live event on 6 June 2014 will doubtless remember the astonishing opening performance from Glitch Lich, with Chad McKinney onstage in London and Cole Ingraham joining...
View ArticleVEM at MeCCSA 2015
I’ll be speaking on the team’s behalf at the 2015 conference of the Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association next week. My paper is entitled ‘The valuing of electronic music’, and will...
View ArticleWinterlight performance at the 6 June 2014 live event
The second musical performance of the night was a beautiful live set from Tim Ingham of ambient shoegaze electronica band Winterlight. This followed a generative noise performance from Glitch Lich and...
View ArticleSlackk live DJ set at the 6 June 2014 event
At 20.15, Slackk took to the decks to provide the night with its musical finale: a 42-minute set featuring tracks by Inkke, Dark0, Shriekin’ and other stars of the instrumental grime scene. It was...
View ArticleValuing electronic music: who’s listening to whom?
Small version of the poster I put together for today’s pop-up research event at the Open University. Node size indicates total number of followers for SoundCloud users based in each city; arrows...
View ArticleComing soon: three short films!
On Thursday, 19 March, a film crew from the Open University – Matt Compton, Jim Hoyland, Holly Tighe, Siobhan Parkinson – and I interviewed speakers and attendees at the Convergence Sessions, three...
View ArticleFilm 1: Changing roles and relationships in the music industry
This is the first of the three films shot at Convergence 2015, focusing on changing roles and relationships in the music industry. It features interviews with Chris Cooke (journalist), Christopher...
View ArticleDr Daniel Allington, Dr Anna Jordanous, and Dr Byron Dueck: Online networks...
Originally posted on Cultural Value Project Blog:This project began with Pierre Bourdieu’s argument that cultural value is a form of belief. Drawing on Marcel Mauss’s work in the anthropology of...
View ArticleNetworks of value in electronic music: SoundCloud, London, and the importance...
The first peer-reviewed journal article arising from the Valuing Electronic Music project has now been published in Cultural Trends as part of a special issue on empirical research into cultural value...
View ArticlePublic report: Music, Value, and Social Networks in the Digital World
Although we’ve spent a lot of time writing articles and presenting our work at conferences, the Valuing Electronic Music project was never just about producing a piece of research for academic...
View ArticleFilm: Is how we acknowledge music’s value changing?
With Convergence 2016 approaching, it seemed like a good moment to post the second of the three films shot at last year’s Convergence Sessions, focusing on how people acknowledge the value of music –...
View ArticleFilm: Is collaboration changing?
With this year’s Convergence Sessions (Convergence 2016) fast approaching, here is the third of the three films shot at last year’s event, focusing on what people value in collaborators – and how...
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