This blog is a continuation of a series. See here (Page 2016a) for the previous blog. (Maypole 2018a) Mainstream popular music-making practitioners draw on broader lineage Musical hybridity is prevalent in most approaches to music-making, particularly roots-based approach music. Mainstream music developed out of traditional roots-based forms of music such as blues, country, folk, bluegrass and...
Category: Production
All things related to the production process of contemporary music and sonic practitioners, such as location, technology and workflow
Aesthetic Processing
This blog is a continuation of a series. See here for the previous blog (2016a). Psychedelic Rock Music At the outset of my research study, I imagined my creative practice was to be a five (5) track EP of original compositions. The song style was to be a roots-based, a style I had been accustomed to...
History Music Production Part 4a – DIY experimental practice influences Large Format Console Studios
(Paul, 2016) Development of production techniques in mainstream popular music-making The making of mainstream popular music has developed exponentially over the past five (5) decades, in terms of musical style, site (creative location), technology and workflow (Owsinski 2013, Huber and Runstein 2013; Izhaki 2013; Gilreath, 2010). As a flow on from both globalisation and technological...
History Music Production Part 5b – DIY Culture & Music
This blog is a continuation of a series. See here (Page 2015a) for the previous blog. (Musical Styles/Genre 2016) Musical styles (Genre) studies exemplifying changing practice in music production I provide some examples of contemporary DIY music production practitioners, chosen because of the following: their presence in public mediums; are considered a source of information and influence...
Effective and best practice for the contemporary music practitioner
Standards of effective practice have played an important part in the audio industry, even though these may be challenged by DIY culture and practices. Historically, the music and audio industry’s standards have addressed commercial and technical criteria. In commercial terms a “successful record producer is, by definition, someone who has had multiple hits” (Burgess 1997,...
History Music Production Part 5a – The DIY music-making practitioner
This blog is a continuation of a series. See here (Page 2015a) for the previous blog. Following substantial technological development from the late 1960s to today, music practice has diversified exponentially in a variety of social and cultural contexts (Wallis 2001; Watson and Shove 2008). Limited access to major corporate record label and broadcasting studios in...
History Music Production Part 4d – Digital Project Studios become the platform for contemporary DIY music-making?
(MIDAS 2014) This blog is a continuation of a series. See here (Page 2015a) for the previous blog. The changing field of music production Portable Studio With the development of laptops and handheld microphones such as the Zoom H4, the project studio got smaller and more mobile. Coined as portable studios, anyone with musical aspirations could...
History Music Production Part 4c – Large Format Console Studios to Digital Project Studios
(Meter 2014) This blog is a continuation of a series. See here (Page 2016) for the previous blog. The changing field of music production Twenty-first century music production exists as a fragmented field of practice, in part as a result of increasing decentralisation in the audio and music industry since the 1980’s. A range of factors...
Doctoral Research Study – Part 2e
My journey continues…. (Page 2014a) This blog is a continuation of a series. See here (Page 2015a) for the previous blog. Year 2015: 2nd Observation Part e Bordering my music-making practice As mentioned in the previous blog, I came to understand within the first few months I needed to broadly explore the fields and disciplines of...
Doctoral Research Study – Part 2d
My journey continues…. (2014) This blog is a continuation of a series. See here (Page 2015a) for the previous blog. Year 2015: 2nd Observation Part d Bordering my music-making practice As mentioned in the previous blog, I came to understand within the first few months I needed to broadly explore the fields and disciplines of contemporary...