1st Edition
Innovation in Music: Technology and Creativity
Innovation in Music: Technology and Creativity is a groundbreaking collection, bringing together contributions from instructors, researchers and professionals. Split into two sections, covering composition and performance, and technology and innovation, this volume offers truly international perspectives on ever-evolving practices.
Including chapters on audience interaction, dynamic music methods, AI and live electronics performances, 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: Composition and Performance
1. Rethinking the Relationships Between Space, Performance and Composition in Notated Acoustic Music
Ambrose Field
2. The ‘Performable Recordings’ Model and the Pursuit of Timing Consistency in Live Electronic Dance Music
Christos Moralis
3. The Space is the Place: Interplay and Interaction in an Extreme Location
Claus Sohn Andersen
4. Composing Without Keys: The LFO as a Composition Tool
Dave Fortune
5. Exploring a Network Setup for Music Experimentation
Enric Guaus, Àlex Barrachina, Josep Comajuncosas, Gabriel Saber, Víctor Sanahuja
6. Performance Mapping and Control; Enhanced Musical Connections and a Strategy to Optimise Flow-State
Charlie Norton, Daniel Pratt, Justin Paterson
7. Hacking the Concert Experience - Exploring Co-Creative Audience Interaction at a Chiptune Live Performance
Matthias Jung, Vegard Kummen
8. Exploring Cell-Based Dynamic Music Composition to Create Non-Linear Musical Works
Samuel Lynch, Helen English, Jon Drummond, Nathan Scott
9. A Deepened ‘Sense of Place’: Ecologies of Sound and Vibration in Urban Settings and Domesticated Landscapes
Stefan Östersjö, Jan Berg, Anders Hultqvist
Part 2: Technology and Innovation
10. “Yesterday’s Charm, Today’s Precision”: Martin B. Kantola and the Design of a New ‘Classic’ Microphone (Nordic Audio Labs NU-100K)
Antti Sakari Saario
11. Audio Beyond Demand: Creative Reinventions of the Broadcast Listening Experience
Florian Hollerweger
12. Towards a Standard for Interactive Music
Hans Lindetorp
13. Transforming Performance with HASGS: Research-led Artistic Practice with an Augmented Instrument
Henrique Portovedo, Ângelo Martingo
14. Waveforms as Means of Time Tinkering
Bjørnar Ersland Sandvik
15. Levelling up Chiptune: Nostalgic Retro Games Console Sounds for the ROLI Seaboard
Kirsten Hermes
16. Forceful Action and Interaction in Non-Haptic Music Interfaces
Mads Walther-Hansen, Anders Eskildsen
17. Artificial Creativity and Tools for Understanding: Music, Creative Labour and AI
Matthew Lovett
18. From Intelligent Digital Assistant to Intelligent Digital Collaborator
M. Nyssim Lefford, David Moffat, Gary Bromham
19. Analyse! Development and Integration of Software-Based Tools for Musicology and Music Theory
Martin Pfleiderer, Egor Polyakov, Christon-Ragavan Nadar
20. A New Morphology: Strategies for Innovation in Live Electronics Performance
Mattias Petersson
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.
