Center for Listening Research
The Center for Listening Research (CLR) is an independent, non-commercial research project run by Christopher Meiklejohn. CLR studies how listeners perceive structure in improvised music — particularly the boundaries between composed and improvised sections in jam-band performances. By signing up and submitting responses, you agree to the terms below.
You'll listen to short audio clips (typically 5–30 minutes each, sourced from third-party archives such as phish.in and the Internet Archive) and mark structural boundaries, answer multiple-choice questions, or write brief notes. Each "assignment" is voluntary and takes as long as you choose to spend on it. You can submit, partially submit, or skip any assignment.
We do not collect IP addresses for research purposes, do not run analytics or advertising trackers, and do not record audio of you. The site uses Supabase (a third-party database provider) and Railway (a third-party hosting provider) under their standard terms; operational logs from those services exist outside our research dataset.
Your responses are research data. We use them to:
Reports are typically aggregate. Your display name may appear alongside specific labels in inter-rater comparison tables, in acknowledgments, or in figures that show individual contributors. Direct quotes from your free-text notes would only be published with separate permission. Your email is never disclosed in any published output.
Participation is voluntary. You can stop at any time by simply not completing further assignments. To delete your account and the responses associated with it, email zabriskieapp@gmail.com with the email address you signed up under. Deletion requests are processed manually and typically within two weeks. Aggregate analyses already published before your deletion request cannot be retroactively unpublished, but your individual data will be removed from active datasets and any future analyses.
Participation is unpaid. CLR is not a clinical study; we do not make therapeutic, diagnostic, or other risk claims about listening to music. If you find a particular clip distressing for any reason, you may stop immediately.
CLR is an independent research project. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Phish, Goose, phish.in, the Internet Archive, or any other artist, archive, or rights-holder referenced in the corpus. Audio used in this study is streamed from the original public archives; CLR does not redistribute audio files.
Account data and responses are stored on Supabase (Postgres). Access is restricted by row-level security; only you and the project administrator can read your individual responses. No reasonable storage provider can guarantee perfect security, but we don't store any payment information, real names (unless you choose to use one as your display name), or sensitive personal data.
If we materially change these terms in the future, we'll update the version number above and ask returning participants to re-agree before submitting additional responses. Existing data already collected under a previous version remains usable under that previous version's terms.
Questions, deletion requests, or anything else: zabriskieapp@gmail.com.