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
Ingvild Koksvik
2. Exploring Dolby Atmos: Past Present, and Future
Andy Visser, Dan Pratt, 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, Chris Dewey
6. Dynamic Meta-Spatialization: Narrative and Recontextualization Implications of Spatial Stage Stacking
Michail Exarchos, Jo Lord
7. Vocal Chops: Another Human/Machine Hybrid
Ragnhild Brøvig, Jon Marius Aareskjold-Drecker
8. “Come together, right now...”: Making Remote Multiparty in-the-Box Audio Mixing a Reality
Scott Stickland, Nathan Scott, 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: A Study of European Songwriters Working Towards China’s Market
Liucija Fosseli
14. Yellow Music in Diaspora: Re-inventing the Sound of pre-1975 Record Production in Sài Gòn
Nguyễn Thanh Thủy, Stefan Östersjö, Matt Wright
15. Innovating Music Experiences – Creativity in Pandemic Times
Jenny Karlsson, Jessica Edlom, 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.
Russ Hepworth-Sawyer is a lecturer at York St John University. He is lead series editor for the Perspectives on Music Production series and has published many books with Focal Press.
Justin Paterson is a professor at the University of West London, as well as co-chair of the Innovation in Music conference series.
Rob Toulson is a professor at the University of West London.
