{"id":2154,"date":"2009-10-13T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T09:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2009-10-13T10:30:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T09:30:23","slug":"you-are-what-you-listen-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2154","title":{"rendered":"You are what you listen to?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is a bit of a tease&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve been sitting here working away for the last couple of hours I&#8217;ve also been listening to much excellent music:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Steve Lawson&#8217;s soulful bass guitar<\/li>\n<li>Missy Higgins&#8217; plaintive vocals<\/li>\n<li>Muse&#8217;s in your face assault of the senses<\/li>\n<li>My Chemical Romance&#8217;s flirtation with pain and premature death<\/li>\n<li>Adele&#8217;s warmth and tenderness<\/li>\n<li>Danny Rhymez and Matty B&#8217;s anarchic audio artistry<\/li>\n<li>The Streets brilliant description of teenage pain<\/li>\n<li>The strange funkiness of Vampire Weekend<\/li>\n<li>The manic-depressive insight in to Roger Waters&#8217; head<\/li>\n<li>The goth-rock of Evanescence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are just some of the sounds that my randomly shuffling laptop has thrown at me.<\/p>\n<p>And although it&#8217;s been fun to have these works as my soundtrack, they have underlined the scope of a problem I&#8217;m working on.<\/p>\n<p>Let me explain, you might be able to help!<\/p>\n<p>I am building an on-line questionnaire for a talented but unsigned band. They are looking to sample a range of public opinion to help decide what should be the band&#8217;s first major single release.<\/p>\n<p>The on-line questionnaire will carry some examples\/excerpts of their work and ask questions about each sample. The responses to these questions should bring us down to public opinion on which would be the the most highly-rated piece for a single.<\/p>\n<p>We need to have a few hundred people involved to give the survey a decent weight of numbers.<\/p>\n<p>My cunning plan is to stand outside a couple of record stores with a clipboard and just ask people if they&#8217;d like to help.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a bribe or two; we need to have a prize draw for those who take part.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a bunch of stuff that we could use as prizes; T-Shirts, CDs etc.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a few days before the questionnaire is up, but I was wondering if you&#8217;d like to take part?<\/p>\n<p>Because, you know, you&#8217;re pretty excellent, right?<\/p>\n<p>I was also wondering if, when it&#8217;s all up and running, you&#8217;d like to spread the word to your friends, colleagues, bank managers etc?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll put a note here when it&#8217;s up and running &#8211; just feel free to nip over and give us the benefit of your wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a bit of a tease&#8230; As I&#8217;ve been sitting here working away for the last couple of hours I&#8217;ve also been listening to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}