Musical Experiment

[Akande50]

Hello. My name is Tyson Platt, and I am an Associate Professor of Psychology at Alabama State University. I am currently investigating how listeners detect and experience emotional content in atonal/experimental music. To that end, I need your help! I am conducting an experiment on the detection of emotional content in atonal music, and I am seeking participants for the experiment. If you are interested in participating in the experiment, please follow this link to learn more about the research and participate in the experiment. The experiment will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. During the experiment, you will be asked to listen to a clip of music and indicate what emotional content you detect in the music. You will not be asked to provide any identifiable information (e.g., name, address, etc.) during the experiment. If you are willing to participate in the experiment, please only complete the experiment once. Thank you for your consideration.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XGQ5JQ2

[Guest271017]

Still waiting to hear the results from the last deal I participated in on this forum.

[Bob Bickerton]

Still waiting to hear the results from the last deal I participated in on this forum.

Which has nothing to do with the OPs request

I wish you well ....... sorry too busy to partake myself.

Bob

[Dave B]

I have taken the test. I would like to qualify my responses though : the reason that I have an altered emotional response after the music is not because of the melodic content of the music - quite the opposite. The complete lack of melody makes the test annoying to me. There are composers that I enjoy listening to who integrate atonalism into their pieces - Sakamoto springs to mind - but always within a melodic framework. I certainly didn't get any 'bliss' from that, just 'I really hope that the Beethoven isn't turning in his grave'. Maybe I should have put something in the 'proud' response as I felt a mild sense of achievement for sticking it out to the end...

[slewin49]

I tried I really did but so many daft questions. I kept having to go back to increase the response to "Do you feel irritated". Never got as far as the "music".

Steve

[Sam Inglis]

I did the survey and I think I now have RSI in my mouse hand.

I think you'll get more response if you can cut down the huge number of almost identical questions!

[One Horse Town]

Tyson, I think you'll get more responses if you explain the 'end game' apart from 'how people respond.....'. Once that's established or you have a hypothesis, what will you 'do' with the data? Will it inform the next stage (if there's one) of the process or is that it? Are findings and implications restricted to Music? Could this impact on an area such as sound engineering or even physical or mental health?

[paulears]

I think I should add to this old topic - he's been hawking this around again recently. It's actually a cheat. The music has a preamble, explaining the composer, his status, history and background - then you get the music followed by questions. However, the same music is also available with different preamble, where the history, nationality and status of the composer has been varied - you then listen to the random creation of a totally terrible piece of music and he is testing how the preamble altered your perception - a bit devious really, but clever. He is still doing it after 5 years, so a strange piece of research. I wonder if it's actually part of his teaching and he runs the experiment to show the class how perceptions change with the preamble setting the mind. The same awful music is designed to provoke the answers. The research IS the experiment.