fidelity mix : 05.2010

Notes on the fidelity mix:

A small portion of the mix for a 2 day design thinking workshop in Boston. Most songs featured here were used as intermission / welcome music or as part of our 1 hour introductory wallet project.

Learnings:

A big discovery on this trip was the use of song duration to time each phase of our intro project. We added music over the empathy and interview phases for the first time just to get the background energy up in a large open space. Soft music with no lyrics seemed to compliment the activity and felt like it created a relaxed, conversational context (like music at a dinner party). (The two Django Reignhart tracks on this mix were used for this purpose.)

Small variations in volume (I'm talking minute changes) seemed to have a drastic amplification effect on level of chatter in the room -- if you want people to talk louder to raise the energy in the room just tap the volume up a tiny bit and you may find a cascading effect that amps up the whole room (just don't turn it up so loud that people are shouting uncomfortably).

Look for a wallet mix with timed tracks to show up here in the near future...