Music and the Machine: Contemporary Music Production
A special issue of Arts (ISSN 2076-0752). This special issue belongs to the section "Musical Arts and Theatre".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 July 2019) | Viewed by 83228
Special Issue Editors
Interests: music and sound recording; electronic and electro-acoustic performance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Every day I watched how a bare metal frame, rolling down the line would come off the other end, a spanking brand new car. What a great idea! Maybe, I could do the same thing with my music. Create a place where a kid off the street could walk in one door, an unknown, go through a process, and come out another door, a star.
—Berry Gordy, founder of the Motown record label.
Formulas, systems, and methods are not new to music production. The Brill Building songwriters, Motown, The Spice Girls and Boy Band equivalents, and more recently, K-Pop have all used carefully constructed systems to churn out their hits. However, until recently, taking the human actors out of these systems and handing creative control over to computers—for either music creation or music production—was unthinkable. Today, that idea is very real with more and more music being made by, and with assistance from, algorithmic and learning systems. This Special Issue invites contributions from authors working in the complementary fields of automatic music creation and automatic music production, in order to develop a broader understanding of these disciplines, what the future holds and how this is changing our relationship with the making of music.
Mr. Kirk McNally
Dr. Brecht De Man
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- music production
- contemporary
- algorithm
- automatic music creation
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