sarahhosford
COMPUTATION
In project one, I didn't go very deep into any aspects of the computation of records, so I expanded on it a heap more here. I wanted to research into why vinyl is such a hipster thing. I started off with a brief timeline of the life and times of vinyl - starting from its decent and right through to it's resurrection. I found statistics on vinyl sales for over a decade, starting from the "death" of vinyl and showing its steady comeback. This didn't really explain why vinyl was becoming popular again, and all online resources were opinion pieces written by bald men in their 50s so they did not feel to reliable. I came across the stats done by a company through the BBC - the article was called called "style over substance" which explained how many people who by records actually play them on a record player. I found it super interesting, since almost half the the people surveyed why by records don't actually play them, they just collect them. This answered a lot of the question I set out to answer: are records bought for sound quality or for aesthetic.
COMPUTATION
In project one, I didn't go very deep into any aspects of the computation of records, so I expanded on it a heap more here. I wanted to research into why vinyl is such a hipster thing. I started off with a brief timeline of the life and times of vinyl - starting from its decent and right through to it's resurrection. I found statistics on vinyl sales for over a decade, starting from the "death" of vinyl and showing its steady comeback. This didn't really explain why vinyl was becoming popular again, and all online resources were opinion pieces written by bald men in their 50s so they did not feel to reliable. I came across the stats done by a company through the BBC - the article was called called "style over substance" which explained how many people who by records actually play them on a record player. I found it super interesting, since almost half the the people surveyed why by records don't actually play them, they just collect them. This answered a lot of the question I set out to answer: are records bought for sound quality or for aesthetic.