A small amount of primary research was conducted to determine what people do when they listen to music and how they feel when they listen. Six questions were conducted with the answers noted bellow.
What activity are you doing when you listen to music?
- Doing work
- Doing work
- Producing music
- Doing work
- Doing work
- Going for a walk
- Doing work
- Bathing / taking a shower
- Travelling
- Doing work
- Walking / travelling Alone
- Any activity on my own
- Doing work
- Going to gym
What genre do you listen to most when doing this activity?
- Rap
- House
- Alternative Rock
- Hip-Hop
- Melodic Deep Techno
- House
- Indie
- Indie Rock
- Alternative Rock
- Alternative Rock
- Disco
- Rock
- Techno
Do you listen to music for your mental wellbeing?
62.5% of who answered the question answered with yes
37.5% answered no
If you do what genre do you listen to most that helps?
- Piano / Lo-Fi Hip-Hop
- Alternative Rock
- Hip-Hop
- Indie / Alternative
- Film Score
- 90s Pop Rock
- Disco
- Heavy Rock
Do you think album artwork has any correlation to the music? What connection do you make?
- No connection to the music, just a pastiche of popular culture
- It represents the structure of the music
- Band artwork has a rough design
- Each genre has a specific style
- What the artist tries to communicate is different because the album art is communicating something different
- It represents the emotion
- It is specific to the artist, probably an inside joke or meaning that the band know
- It communicates to the audience, like an advert to make them listen to the music
- It's just for style
- I let the music inform my opinion on the cover
- It's how the band views the album
- It sums up an emotion
- Disco is colourful and funky, representing the music
- It represents the genre
- It's a visual representation of the sound
The people surveyed were also presented with 9 different album covers and asked how these covers made them feel.
The mixture of responses will inform the design style that is chosen in the development.
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