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.

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

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 4, 2016
• Online Publication Date: May 20, 2016
• Publication Date: May 20, 2016
• Deposit Date: Feb 15, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: May 20, 2016
• Journal: Journal of the Royal Musical Association
• Print ISSN: 0269-0403
• Electronic ISSN: 1471-6933
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 141
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 167-202
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02690403.2016.1151241
• Keywords: Music
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/385489
• Publisher URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02690403.2016.1151241
• 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.com/10.1080/02690403.2016.1151241