Processes of learning in the project studio

Slater, Mark

Abstract

The emergence of the project studio is a story of increasing access to ever more powerful technologies that allow music to be produced in increasingly diverse circumstances. In 1973 Melody Maker responded, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, to an emerging trend by offering basic advice about setting up a home studio: ‘about half the garages and basements in England must be echoing to the siren song of rock music by now; everybody’s building their own recording studios’ (Blake 1973). Théberge identifies the same year as a milestone in the emergence of a viable market for consumer music technologies because sales of electronic synthesisers were first tracked as a separate category (1997: 52-3). Technological innovation, economic viability, and the socio-cultural impetus to make music with technology coincided in the early 1970s to create the conditions for the eventual emergence of the domestic project studio.

Citation

Slater, M. (2016). Processes of learning in the project studio. In A. King, & E. Himonides (Eds.), Music, Technology, and Education : Critical Perspectives (9-26). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596945

• Online Publication Date: Jun 10, 2016
• Publication Date: Jun 24, 2016
• Deposit Date: Apr 6, 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 9-26
• Series Title: SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music
• Book Title: Music, Technology, and Education : Critical Perspectives
• Chapter Number: 1
• ISBN: 9781317091516; 9781472426208
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596945
• Keywords: Project studio; Music
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/450468
• Contract Date: Apr 6, 2017