Locating Project Studios and Studio Projects. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Slater, Mark
• Is Part Of: Journal of the Royal Musical Association. Volume 141:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 167
• Page End: 202
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: Music -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Music -- Periodicals; 780.5
• DOI: 10.1080/02690403.2016.1151241
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0269-0403

Abstract

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.