What is the Musician Self-Submission Form?
How will the data collected through this form be treated?
Who can I contact if I have more questions?
What is the Musician Self-Submission Form?
This form is a way for musicians to submit information about themselves and join the global idiodextrous community.
The sections marked ‘PUBLIC INFORMATION’ will be edited together into a bio about you, to be featured here on idiodextrous.com
Why has it been created?
This form has two main goals. The first of those goals is to give you a way to add your name to the growing list of idiodextrous musicians featured on this website, with the long-term hope of creating a sense of community among those of us who play this way.
Secondly, by sharing your knowledge here, you are also contributing to the world’s first project dedicated to researching and spotlighting musicians who play string instruments ‘upside down and backwards’. This phenomenon is almost completely unstudied in academia – and with your help, I aim to change that!
How will the data collected through this form be treated?
After the introduction page, the form has four short sections:
PERSONAL & CONTACT INFORMATION: PRIVATE
This information won’t be included in your bio on idiodextrous.com – it’s just being requested as a way of knowing how to address you and to help me avoid being spammed by robots. This data will never be shared with anyone else without your express written consent.
PUBLIC INFORMATION: ARTIST BIO
This is where you can provide information that you’d like to be edited together into a profile publicly displayed on the ‘Self-submitted Artists’ page of this website. It’s your chance to share links and a brief bio about yourself as a musician – and of course, to promote yourself and your music, if that’s what you’d like to do!
PUBLIC INFORMATION: QUANTITATIVE
These questions collect quantitative data (stats) that will be publicly displayed (in very abbreviated form) next to your profile. The main purpose for collecting this data is to make sure that I understand which particular type of idiodexterity best describes your playing approach, as well as knowing which is your main instrument and which other string instruments you play. In the long-term, this data will also help form a statistical picture of which instruments and approaches are most common among idiodextrous musicians around the world.
PUBLIC INFORMATION: QUALITATIVE
This section is the next best thing to being able to interview you in real time; these are the ten questions I ask all of my idiodextrous interviewees.
These questions aim to gather qualitative data (stories) that provide more information about you as both a musician and as a person. Your answers here provide useful context for understanding how and why you came to play the way you do, how you think it affects your playing (if you do think that) and what kinds of attitudes you’ve encountered towards it.
This is your chance to tell your story. You can be brief with your answers if you prefer – but you can also write as much as you like. If ever there was a person who wanted to know every thought and detail about your experience of playing ‘upside down’, it’s me. So feel free to dive deep!
An edited version of your answers to these questions will appear as part of your bio on idiodextrous.com
PLEASE NOTE: This section also has a final item marked ‘Additional Information (Private)’. Here, you can upload a separate document to share information and stories that you think might be of interest to the research, but that you wouldn’t like to form part of your public profile. An example of this might be that you’d like to share a more personal anecdote, observation or opinion because you think it might provide interesting insights, but you’d prefer to share it privately. If these insights were ever to form part of anonymised statistical data (for example: number of people who have experienced a particular type of audience reaction to their playing approach) or be grouped into the general concepts studied (for example: percentage of people who adopt an idiodextrous approach for reasons related to instrument availability), any identifying characteristics would always be removed.
How is that data stored?
All data collected by this form is stored in a password-protected Google account with two-factor authentication.
The data collected in the sections marked as ‘public’ (as outlined above) will be edited together and published on this website.
All data collected in the sections marked as ‘private’ (as outlined above) will be collated and entered into a database securely stored on a password-protected OneDrive account.
All data collected by this form will be securely kept on file for the duration of this research project, which may include post-doctoral research.
If at any point you would like your public profile to be removed from the idiodextrous website, you can get in touch via the details below.
Who can I contact if I have more questions?
You can contact me, Greg Gottlieb (PhD student in Musicology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the person responsible for this research project) either via the contact form on this website or by email at:
gregory(dot)gottlieb(at)autonoma(dot)cat
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