LISTENING SPACES

Co-directed by Rich Purcell and Rich Randall

Since 2011, The Listening Spaces Project frames music as an essential human activity and seeks to understand the overwhelming impact technology has had on our collective and personal musical interactions. We are committed to understanding the porous boundary between music makers, listeners and users. Listening Spaces was established in 2011 at Carnegie Mellon University with funding from the Center for the Arts in Society’s Media Initiative. Our work examinea ways in which technological, political, and economic forces influence how we make music in the 21st century. We partner with scholars, technologists, critics, artists, musicians, and activists from Pittsburgh and around the world in order to create a stronger discourse about diverse music practices. In 2012, we hosted the Listening Spaces Symposium with scholars such as Larisa Mann, Trebor Scholz, and Jonathan Sterne. In 2016 we published 21st Century Perspectives on Music, Technology, and Culture: Listening Spaces (Palgrave MacMillan).