232 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

232 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

232 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

Innovation in Music: Adjusting Perspectives brings together cutting-edge research on new innovations in the field of music production, technology, performance, and business. With contributions from a host of well-respected researchers and practitioners, this volume provides crucial coverage on the relationship between innovation and rebellion. Including chapters on generative AI, gender... Read more

Chapter 1. On Error, Accident and Contingency in Music

Nick Prior

 

Chapter 2. The Streaming Curve: Streaming, The S Curve and Super-abundance

Matthew Lovett

 

Chapter 3. Missed or Postponed Innovation? The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of Live Streamed Music Events in Italy

Francesco D’Amato

 

Chapter 4. You’re Not Supposed to Launder My Music! Music as Data in the Training of Generative AI Music Models

Rachael Drury

 

Chapter 5. “Unconscious Rebelliousness”: The Polytonal Roles of Young Musicians in an Innovative Music Program

Katy H. Weatherly

 

Chapter 6. Innovation in Music: Reimagining Approaches to Gender Equality in the British Live Music Industry

Corinna Woolmer

 

Chapter 7. Modes of Engagement with Classical Music: Digital Formats

Clara Colotti

 

Chapter 8. When Chord Charts Fail: Pitfalls of Radical Reharmonisation of Jazz Standards

Agata Kubiak-Kenworthy

 

Chapter 9. Digital Aesthetics and Transcending Lo-Fi in Alex G’s God Save the Animals

Jamie Birkett

 

Chapter 10. Space and Place: Outsiders Collecting, Curating and Sharing Insider Stories and Sounds

Beth Karp

 

Chapter 11. Aural Architecture: Integrating Site into Composition

Bob Birch

 

Chapter 12. “We Went From ‘Yes, Yes Yawl’, Tae ‘Who You Talkin Tae?’”: Language and Authenticity in Scots Hip Hop

Sace Lockhart

 

Chapter 13. Might as Well be Swing: On the Use and Misuse of Quantisation in Hip-Hop Production

Zachary Diaz

 

Chapter 14. Innovation in Dance Music Research: A Focus on Listening

Euan Pattie

 

Chapter 15. Creative Cyborgs: Virtual 3D Characters as Artist Identities for Musicians

Kirsten Hermes

 

Chapter 16. Translating Artworks into Music: Synaesthetic Reverse-engineering in Music Composition

Corin Anderson

 

Chapter 17. Reframing Conflicts Between Systematic Production, Creative Production, Authorship and Ownership

Robert Wilsmore

 

Chapter 18. An Innovative Music Production Model Leading to a Sustainable Hit Song: "Främling"

David Thyrén and Jan-Olof Gullö

Biography

Jan-Olof Gullö is Professor in Music Production at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden and Visiting Professor at Linnaeus University.

Russ Hepworth-Sawyer is a mastering engineer with MOTTOsound, an Associate Professor at York St John University, and the managing editor of the Perspectives on Music Production series for Routledge.

Dave Hook is an Associate Professor in Music at Edinburgh Napier University. A rapper, poet, songwriter, and music producer, his research focuses on hip-hop, rap lyricism, identity, culture, and performance, through creative practice.

Mark Marrington is an Associate Professor in Music Production at York St John University, having previously held teaching positions at Leeds College of Music and the University of Leeds. His research interests include metal music, music technology and creativity, the contemporary classical guitar, and twentieth-century British classical music, and his recently published book, Recording the Classical Guitar (2021), won the 2022 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research (Classical Music).

Justin Paterson is Professor of Music Production at London College of Music, University of West London, UK. He has numerous research publications as author and editor. His research interests include haptics, 3-D audio, and interactive music, fields that he has investigated over a number of funded projects. He is also an active music producer and composer; his latest album (with Robert Sholl) Les ombres du Fantôme, was released in 2023 on Metier Records.

Rob Toulson is Director of RT60 Ltd, who develop innovative music applications for mobile platforms. He was formerly Professor of Creative Industries at the University of Westminster and Director of the CoDE Research Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. Rob is an author and editor of many books and articles, including Drum Sound and Drum Tuning, published by Routledge in 2021.