1st Edition

Innovation in Music Future Opportunities

Edited By Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, Justin Paterson, Rob Toulson Copyright 2021
474 Pages 96 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

474 Pages 96 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

474 Pages 96 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

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... Read more

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.