About THE PROJECT
My Life as a Playlist (“MLAP Website”) is a new collaboration between the ABC and the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (“The Centre”). The MLAP Website focuses on our own lives and is an entertaining, interactive experience that allows audiences to choose their personal playlists for key moments such as weddings, birthdays, and funerals as well as love and heartbreak. In other words, put together a soundtrack to their lives. It’s also full of fun pop quizzes, longer surveys and historical information about music and emotions.
The Centre intends to use the data gathered as a research tool for their study into music and emotions since pre-modern times.
Please note that the use of the data on this website is for academic research purposes only, and will form the basis of a larger study by the Centre. Details identifying you as a participant in the quizzes and surveys will not be held in connection with your survey answers. Results obtained from this research may be published including at conferences or in academic journals. In any publication, information will be provided in such a way that you cannot be identified.
HOW TO USE THE SITE
Users can go onto the site and look around, browse through playlists, fill out quizzes and listen to 30 seconds per song without having to register or give out any information.
The music is hosted by a third party website, rdio.com. rdio.com’s media player and music catalogue is embedded on the MLAP Website but is not hosted by the ABC.
Users can choose to register with rdio.com for a free trial period and will get increased functionality, including the ability to make their own playlists, complete surveys and listen to songs in full. This free registration access to full songs will last for 6 months for desktop and 14 days for mobile and tablet.
At the end of their trial registration period with rdio.com, users can choose to join rdio.com and pay a fee for ongoing full access to music. If they don’t wish to sign up permanently, users will revert to only being able to listen to 30 seconds of music.
Registering with rdio.com is entirely voluntary and users who register will be subject to rdio.com’s registration terms, which users should check carefully. ABC and the Centre are not responsible for users use of the rdio.com media player and users registration with rdio.com is between the user and rdio.com.
The MLAP Website uses the rdio.com API but is not endorsed, certified or otherwise approved in any way by rdio.com, Inc.
PLATFORMS
This website has been created to give a rich, interactive media experience to users. The complex quizzes and surveys are best viewed and explored on newer browsers rather than older browsers such as Internet Explorer 8 or below. The use of a desktop or tablet is also recommended for this site as mobile devices will not give the full experience.
ABOUT THE CENTRE
The Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for History of Emotions comprises five nodes located at the Universities of Western Australia, Melbourne, Sydney, Queensland and Adelaide. The purpose of the Centre is to understand how emotions function in individuals and societies and how they have driven historical change. This includes looking at how emotions were performed and expressed in pre-modern dramatic, literacy, artistic and musical performances, and how historical perspectives have shaped our modern ways of engaging with music.
PRODUCTION CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
University of Western Australia
- Professor Jane Davidson
- Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and Callaway/Tunley Chair of Music at The University of Western Australia
- Dr. Sandra Garrido
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions , The University of Western Australia
ABC
- Head of ABC TV Arts
- Katrina Sedgwick
- Executive Producer
- Jo Chichester
- Producer
- Tim Bosanquet
- Multiplatform Producer
- Greer Cornish
- Development Producers
- Kath Earle, Sally Chesher
- Business Affairs
- Claudia Lawson
- Production Manager
- Jay Ooi
- Legal
- Vanessa Bateup
- Radio Arts Editor
- Tony Macgregor
- Radio Multiplatform
- Simon Chambers
- Quiz Writer
- Geraldine Quinn
- Editorial Policies
- Kate Hickey
- SEO
- Jo Pham
Website designed and developed by Design Royale
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special thanks to the following for their contributions and efforts in making this project come together:
Amanda Duthie
ABC Photo Archives
PHOTOGRAPHIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Photo of Fiona Horne (Def FX) courtesy of www.akphotography.com.au
Photo of Monica McInerney courtesy of Ashley Miller
Emo photo courtesy of Jason Rogers
Gay Wedding photo courtesy of Stefano Bolognini
Girl With Headphones photo courtesy Isalinky
Teens sharing a Song photo courtesy www.flickr.com/people/46589312@N08
Ethnic Hani girl wearing typical Hani gear courtesy Jialiang Gao www.peace-on-earth.org
Couple looking out over pier courtesy April Killingworth