About MEL
The Music Experience Lab was created in 2008 by
Richard Randall at Carnegie Mellon University with a focus on
human auditory cognition. In 2011, Randall partnered with scholar
Richard Purcell and
CMU's
Center for the Arts in Society to form the
Listening Spaces Project—-a
three-year initiative to examine how technological, political, and economic
forces influence how we make music in the 21st century. The work of Listening
Spaces prompted MEL to develop research programs around public music events, music
as a good, and music labor/value relationships. Currently, we work with Romani
musicians in the Balkans to promote Romani as important cultural producers and combat human rights abuses.
People
Rich Randall, Principal Investigator, C.V.
I spend part of my time answering fundamental questions about music and the human condition. I call this work the "Music Experience Lab," and I partner with people, institutions, and technologies to
create new knowledge and transformational practices around music. I currently
live in Pittsburgh, PA and work at Carnegie Mellon University.
Cami Streuly, Research Assistant
Global Sustainability Goals
MEL projects support the following CMU Sustainable Development Goals
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