participate in the scientific experiment about music preferences
September 7th, 2011
As you could already know, I am a researcher from Barcelona working with the Music Technology Group of the Pompeu Fabra University. If you are a reader of my blog, now it’s my chance to ask for your help! 
I would like to ask for your kind collaboration in a research experiment focused on modelling of music preferences and music recommendation, being a part of my PhD studies. This goal of this research is to improve music recommendation systems of the future, to make them more accurate and intelligent by understanding the underlying patterns of musical preferences.
I would like to ask you a list of those music titles (artist or composer – title) that compactly but thoroughly define your music preferences. The list does not have any restriction on genres or on the amount of included titles, provided it, compactly but thoroughly, captures your musical preferences. Gathering the minimal set of songs needed to graps or convey your music preferences, It’s important to note that these are not artists, these are single musical pieces which are informative by themselves (without any additional context). Ideally we would like to have a folder with the selected songs in mp3 format (or any format you may use). If you cannot get the mp3 files, please provide a list of the songs, indicating the artist, name of the piece and if needed the edition. You can also create and share a list using Spotify.
With that information we will be able to suggest to you some music (probably unknown to you) that you could enjoy and provide your visual avatar in a form of a cartoony character. If you want to participate, please, email me your list. Afterwards, in future, the experiment will require your feedback on the provided music recommendations (which could take no more than a couple of hours).
In addition to the provided music, I would like to know the following information, which will help us to analyze your musical preferences.
Personal data:
* Age
* Sex
* Interest for music [0-10] (e.g. 0 =no interest – 10 =passionate)
* Do you play any instrument? which one?
* How many songs did you select?
1.- Please describe the strategy that you used to make the musical selection:
2.- Please specify how long did it take to build it.
3.- Give a set of labels that you think define your musical preferences and then the music you selected. These are some examples or aspects you can use:
* Genre (e.g. rock, heavy metal)
* Mood (e.g. calm, happy, party)
* Instrumentation (e.g. orchestral, big band, female singers, melow voice)
* Rhythm (e.g. fast, regular)
* Melody / harmony (e.g. atonal)
4.- Other comments you want to make
Thanks for your collaboration!
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Analogue electro/rave band 
