It’s that time of year. Harkive is an annual survey of listening habits – how you are listening not what you are listening to necessarily. Let them explain it:

Harkive 2017 – The 60-second guide

Harkive is an annual online research project that gathers stories about How, Where and Why people listen to music across a single day. The project this year takes place on Tuesday 25th July – We’d love to hear your story.

The project is interested in how music plays its part in your day on 25th July. We’re interested in the technologies, formats and services you use, the places you find yourselves in and how music accompanies you as you move through your day, and – of course – how music makes you feel.

Joining in with the project is easy. You can do so simply by adding the #harkive hashtag to your music-related posts on Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr. Alternatively, if you want to write something a little longer, you can email it to us, or send it via this online form. Stories are also accepted as posts on the Harkive Facebook wall.

http://harkive.org/

I think some of you have heard of, and indeed taken part in, Harkive. If you haven’t, it’s a project that collects info from contributors via the internet in order to provide a 24-hour snapshot of the how, why and where of the music we’re listening to. This year it takes place on Tues July 19th, and I was delighted to be asked to provide an example blog post* in the run up. Of course I chose a car boot day!

There are all kinds of ways to take part, including email, Twitter, Instagram etc., and contributions can take the form of tweets, blogs, photos, videos etc., then the Harkive machine harvests the lot and does fancy things with the data. Oh, and you also get entered into a prize draw where you can win all kinds of music goodies.

Anybody joining in this year?

*previous featured guests include Jude Rodgers, Stephen Duffy and the keyboardist from Suede (plus a ton of people I’ve never heard of).

http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p773/minibreakfast/harkive%20small_zps6sfaoiic.png http://harkive.org/harkive-2016-10-days-go/