1st Edition
Innovation in Music Future Opportunities
Innovation in Music: Future Opportunities brings together cutting-edge research on new innovations in the field of music production, technology, performance and business. Including contributions from a host of well-respected researchers and practitioners, this volume provides crucial coverage on a range of topics from cybersecurity, to accessible music technology, performance techniques and the role of talent shows within music business.
Innovation in Music: Future Opportunities is the perfect companion for professionals and researchers alike with an interest in the music industry.
Part I Music production innovation
1. Country & Eastern: Contextual and cultural mediation in the recording studio – two producers, two artists, two cultures
RICHARD LIGHTMAN
2. Defining and developing a sonic signature in music mixing: A practice-based approach as modern-day studio mentorship
ANDREA SUCCI
3. Making records within records: Manufacturing phonographic ‘otherness’ in sample-based Hip Hop production
MICHAIL EXARCHOS
4. Motormouth: An essay in sonic recontextualization
JEZ NASH
5. The Individualist: Todd Rundgren’s approach to innovation and his 1993 interactive album No World Order
TIM HUGHES
6. Ground control and cloud booths: Using Dante to break geographical barriers to music production
Paul Ferguson and Dave Hook
7. Music production utilising Internet of Things technologies
MARQUES HARDIN and ROB TOULSON
PART II Music technology innovation
8. development of an Ambisonic Guitar System
DUNCAN WERNER, BRUCE WIGGINS AND EMMA FITZMAURICE
9. Retaining pianistic virtuosity in #MIs: Exploring pre-existing gestural nuances for live sound modulation through a comparative study
NICCOLÒ GRANIERI, JAMES DOOLEY AND TYCHONAS MICHAILIDIS
10. Improvising song writing and composition within a hybrid modular synthesis system
HUSSEIN BOON
11. Speaker Park: An intersection of loudspeaker design and post-acousmatic composition
JON PIGOTT AND ANTTI SAKARI SAARIO
12. Sound objects: Exploring procedural audio for theatre
MAT DALGLEISH AND SARAH WHITFIELD
13. Hearing and feeling memories: Connecting image, sound and haptic feedback to create a multisensory experience of photographs
MATTHEW D.F. EVANS, JAMES DOOLEY AND SIMON HALL
14. Concepts for the design of accessible music technology
JOE WRIGHT
15. Security engineering in the arts
ANDY FARNELL
PART III Performance innovation
16. Transparency and authenticity in the live arena: An exploration of electronic music performance techniques
DAVE FORTUNE
17. BTS’ "Speak Yourself" world tour as an intermedial spectacle of attachment
ALICJA SULKOWSKA
18. A review of contemporary practices incorporating digital technologies with live classical music
CLARA COLOTTI
19. Free ensembles and small (chamber) orchestras as innovative drivers of classical music in Germany
ALENKA BARBER-KERSOVAN AND VOLKER KIRCHBERG
20. Transforming musical performance: Activating the audience as digital collaborators
ADRIAN YORK
21. The online composer–audience collaboration
LUIS RAMIREZ
22. New instruments as creativity triggers in composer–performer collaboration
AGATA KUBIAK-KENWORTHY
23. "My avatar and me": Technology-enhanced mirror in monitoring music performance practice
GIUSY CARUSO, LUC NIJS AND MARC LEMAN
24. Creative considerations for on-screen visuals in electronic pop music performances
KIRSTEN HERMES
PART IV Music business and artist development innovation
25. Towards a quantum theory of musical creativity
MATTHEW LOVETT
26. Observing mood-based patterns and commonalities in music using machine learning algorithms
JEFFREY LUPKER AND WILLIAM J. TURKEL
27. The role of contests and talent shows as part of the artist development process within the music industry
STEFAN LALCHEV AND PAUL G. OLIVER
28. Music: Leeds – supporting a regionalised music sector and scene
PAUL THOMPSON AND SAM NICHOLLS
Biography
Russ Hepworth-Sawyer is co-chair of the UK Mastering Group, a freelance mastering engineer, writer and consultant through MOTTOsound (www.mottosound.com) and part-time lecturer at York St John University, UK.
Justin Paterson is Professor of Music Production at London College of Music, University of West London, UK.
Rob Toulson is Founder and Director of RT60 Ltd, specializing in technology development for the audio and music industries.
