1st Edition
Innovation in Music: Adjusting Perspectives
Innovation in Music: Adjusting Perspectives brings together cutting-edge research on new innovations in the field of music production, technology, performance, and business. With contributions from a host of well-respected researchers and practitioners, this volume provides crucial coverage on the relationship between innovation and rebellion.
Including chapters on generative AI, gender equality, live music, quantisation, and composition, this book is recommended reading for music industry researchers working in a range of fields, as well as professionals interested in industry innovations.
Chapter 1. On Error, Accident and Contingency in Music
Nick Prior
Chapter 2. The Streaming Curve: Streaming, The S Curve and Super-abundance
Matthew Lovett
Chapter 3. Missed or Postponed Innovation? The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of Live Streamed Music Events in Italy
Francesco D’Amato
Chapter 4. You’re Not Supposed to Launder My Music! Music as Data in the Training of Generative AI Music Models
Rachael Drury
Chapter 5. “Unconscious Rebelliousness”: The Polytonal Roles of Young Musicians in an Innovative Music Program
Katy H. Weatherly
Chapter 6. Innovation in Music: Reimagining Approaches to Gender Equality in the British Live Music Industry
Corinna Woolmer
Chapter 7. Modes of Engagement with Classical Music: Digital Formats
Clara Colotti
Chapter 8. When Chord Charts Fail: Pitfalls of Radical Reharmonisation of Jazz Standards
Agata Kubiak-Kenworthy
Chapter 9. Digital Aesthetics and Transcending Lo-Fi in Alex G’s God Save the Animals
Jamie Birkett
Chapter 10. Space and Place: Outsiders Collecting, Curating and Sharing Insider Stories and Sounds
Beth Karp
Chapter 11. Aural Architecture: Integrating Site into Composition
Bob Birch
Chapter 12. “We Went From ‘Yes, Yes Yawl’, Tae ‘Who You Talkin Tae?’”: Language and Authenticity in Scots Hip Hop
Sace Lockhart
Chapter 13. Might as Well be Swing: On the Use and Misuse of Quantisation in Hip-Hop Production
Zachary Diaz
Chapter 14. Innovation in Dance Music Research: A Focus on Listening
Euan Pattie
Chapter 15. Creative Cyborgs: Virtual 3D Characters as Artist Identities for Musicians
Kirsten Hermes
Chapter 16. Translating Artworks into Music: Synaesthetic Reverse-engineering in Music Composition
Corin Anderson
Chapter 17. Reframing Conflicts Between Systematic Production, Creative Production, Authorship and Ownership
Robert Wilsmore
Chapter 18. An Innovative Music Production Model Leading to a Sustainable Hit Song: "Främling"
David Thyrén and Jan-Olof Gullö
Biography
Jan-Olof Gullö is Professor in Music Production at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden and Visiting Professor at Linnaeus University.
Russ Hepworth-Sawyer is a mastering engineer with MOTTOsound, an Associate Professor at York St John University, and the managing editor of the Perspectives on Music Production series for Routledge.
Dave Hook is an Associate Professor in Music at Edinburgh Napier University. A rapper, poet, songwriter, and music producer, his research focuses on hip-hop, rap lyricism, identity, culture, and performance, through creative practice.
Mark Marrington is an Associate Professor in Music Production at York St John University, having previously held teaching positions at Leeds College of Music and the University of Leeds. His research interests include metal music, music technology and creativity, the contemporary classical guitar, and twentieth-century British classical music, and his recently published book, Recording the Classical Guitar (2021), won the 2022 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research (Classical Music).
Justin Paterson is Professor of Music Production at London College of Music, University of West London, UK. He has numerous research publications as author and editor. His research interests include haptics, 3-D audio, and interactive music, fields that he has investigated over a number of funded projects. He is also an active music producer and composer; his latest album (with Robert Sholl) Les ombres du Fantôme, was released in 2023 on Metier Records.
Rob Toulson is Director of RT60 Ltd, who develop innovative music applications for mobile platforms. He was formerly Professor of Creative Industries at the University of Westminster and Director of the CoDE Research Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. Rob is an author and editor of many books and articles, including Drum Sound and Drum Tuning, published by Routledge in 2021.
