Field Notes

     It was the first time I was interviewing someone I did not know at all. My partner Ashley and I had posted our interview summary on the wix website in order to recruit people for our interview and within an hour a couple people, including this particular person, had emailed me, asking to participate in our research. When the time came for the meeting, I sat in the library right outside of Zoe’s bagels waiting for her to find me, not knowing what kind of personality I was about to encounter. Right when she found me, she had the biggest smile on her face and we got along right away. During the interview, she was the first person out of all that I had interviewed that knew all of the songs I played for her (in our interview we play five short clips of music of different genres). During every clip I would play for her, she would sing out loud with total confidence, unaware that she was singing loudly as she had headphones in, but with no care in the world. I would be excited to play the next song for her, curious as to how she was going to jam out to it. Overall, the whole interview was very entertaining and unlike any other one I had done before, making it one to definitely remember.

     Overall, our project is going great. We are very interested in our topic which makes the whole project enjoyable in every way possible. We set up our interview questions and have already completed many interviews, collecting a plethora of data already. At the same time, we are collecting background information from scholarly articles on the connection between music and human emotion to backup our data. The results we have gathered so far from our participants are so intriguing because there are already patterns in the data that we did not expect to see so early on in the research. At this point in time, we are continuing to collect a lot more data and background information, as well as analyze the data as we go to ensure that we follow our research from beginning to end.