Focal Press Innovation in Music: Future Opportunities

Table of Contents

• 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
    • Niccolo Granieri, James Dooley, and Tychonas michaildidis
  • 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 SaarioJ
  • 12. Sound objects: Exploring procedural audio for theatre
    • Mat Daqlgleish 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 Kugiak-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

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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

About the Editors

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.