Locating project studios and studio projects

Slater, Mark

Abstract

Via a longitudinal case study of a studio project (Middlewood Sessions, 2004–12), this research explores processes of music-making in the increasingly prevalent context of the project studio to give an insight into contemporary music-making practices. Predicated upon technologies of decreasing size but increasing processing power, project studios represent a diversification of musical creativity in terms of the persons and locations of music production. Increasingly mobile technologies lead to increasingly mobile practices of music production, which presents a challenge to the seemingly simple question: where is the project studio? In response, I propose an ontology of project-studio music-making that sets out what conditions have to be met for location, as an active proposition, to take place.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: May 20, 2016
• Journal: Journal of the Royal Musical Association
• Print ISSN: 0269-0403
• Electronic ISSN: 1471-6933
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 141
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 167-202
• APA6 Citation: Slater, M. (2016). Locating project studios and studio projects. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 141(1), 167-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690403.2016.1151241
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02690403.2016.1151241
• Keywords: Music
• Publisher URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02690403.2016.1151241
• Copyright Statement: ©2017 University of Hull
• Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of the Royal Musical Association on 20/05/2016, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline...0/02690403.2016.1151241