1st Edition
Innovation in Music: Cultures and Contexts
Innovation in Music: Cultures and Contexts is a groundbreaking collection bringing together contributions from instructors, researchers, and professionals. Split into two sections, covering creative production practices and national/international perspectives, this volume offers truly global outlooks on ever-evolving practices.
Including chapters on Dolby Atmos, the history of distortion, creativity in the pandemic, and remote music collaboration, this is recommended reading for professionals, students, and researchers looking for global insights into the fields of music production, music business, and music technology.
Part 1: Creative Production Practice
1. Staging Notions of Space: Realising Compositional Intention in 3D and Stereo Record Production Through Dolby Atmos
Ingvild Koksvik
2. Exploring Dolby Atmos: Past, Present, and Future
Andy Visser, Dan Pratt, and Andrew Bourbon
3. Introducing the Hyper Near-Field Dolby Atmos Tiny Studio
Paul Novotny
4. Rap as Composite Auditory Streams: Techniques and Approaches for Chimericity Through Layered Vocal Production in Hip-Hop, and Their Aesthetic Implications
Kjell Andreas Oddekalv
5. Exploring the History of Distortion in Drum and Bass
Leigh Shields, Austin Moore, and Chris Dewey
6. Dynamic Meta-Spatialization: Narrative and Recontextualization Implications of Spatial Stage Stacking
Jo Lord and Michail Exarchos
7. Vocal Chops: Another Human/Machine Hybrid
Ragnhild Brøvig and Jon Marius Aareskjold-Drecker
8. “Come Together, Right Now...”: Making Remote Multiparty in-the-Box Audio Mixing a Reality
Scott Stickland, Nathan Scott, and Rukshan Athauda
9. A Creative Methodology for Self-Production
Tony Dupé
10. Two Production Strategies for Music Synchronisation: As Speculative Entrepreneurship
Hussein Boon
Part 2: National and International Perspectives
11. Mobile Classical Music – Recording, Innovation, Networks and Mediatization: Three Swedish Case Studies From the 1940s to 2021
Toivo Burlin
12. “Culture Produces an Industry”: Production and Promotion Strategies of Campus Song Records by Taiwanese Synco Corporation
Haoran Jiang
13. Business Model Innovation in the Music Industry
Liucija Fosseli
14. Yellow Music in Diaspora: Re-Inventing the Sound of Pre-1975 Record Production in Sài Gòn
Nguyễn Thanh Thủy, Stefan Östersjö, and Matt Wright
15. Innovating Music Experiences: Creativity in Pandemic Times
Jenny Karlsson, Jessica Edlom, and Linda Ryan Bengtsson
16. Connecting Across Borders: Communication Tools and Group Practices of Remote Music Collaborators
Martin K. Koszolko
17. From Master Pieces to Masterpiece: Source Selection and Reformatting During the Republishing Process of Legacy Music Productions
Thomas Bårdsen
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.
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. 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 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.
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).