Attending live music can improved wellbeing and quality of life, partialy because it a bringing together of comunitys. And free open acsess concertes are scientificly backed to only amplify these effects. This is why myself and my peers where so exited for this performance. Live music was an important part of this gig
reaserch idicates that free open-access music events increase wellbeing effects by removing the finantial and psychological barriers to attendance. when events can be accessed with no cost, we can reach a broader amount of the community including those who may normaly not have access to live music, this increases diversaty and there fore enhances social inteaction and communal value. the descision to make the project free and publicly accessable alined with our aim of providing interactive arts in either the backround or the forefrount of the antendees minds.
Our wide veriety of music styleys also allines with making our performance inclucive to match the broad demographic of religions, ethnicetys, sexualatys and household incomes of every one at bradford college even if its just for part of the programme. I felt as this had the result of making it feel more like a shared cultural space rather than catering to a narrow musical preferance.
Demographic reaserch was crutial to planning the event. given that the primary audiance consisted of studened typicaly aged 16- 21. studies on cultural engagment of youth show that younger audiences respond more positevly to informal live events rather than a formal concert setting sutch as the one in project 1.
it was importwant to reaserch volume leveles. not only for legal reasons but because loud noises can reduce enjoyment levels whereas ballenced volume supports accessibility and prolonged engagement. by mentaining volume levels and keeping them blelow 107 db using a decibel monitor we made sure this renforced the gigs aim of being inclusive.
A community based music project with simular aims to our was bradford city of culture 2025. This was a large with free public perfomances witch allowed people to graze on music.