Innovation in Music: Current Research Perspectives

Claus Sohn Andersen is an Assistant Professor and Head of Program for the BA in Sound Engineering and Music Production at Kristiania University College, Norway, where he teaches Music Production.Jan-Olof Gullö is Professor in Music Production at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, and Visiting Professor at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His research interests include technical, entrepreneurial, and artistic aspects of creativity in music production.Russ Hepworth-Sawyer is a Mastering Engineer with MOTTOsound, an Associate Professor at York St John University, UK, and the Managing Editor of the Perspectives on Music Production series for Routledge.Mark Marrington is an Associate Professor in Music Production at York St John University, UK, having previously held teaching positions at Leeds College of Music and the University of Leeds. His research interests include metal music, music technology and creativity, the contemporary classical guitar, and twentieth-century British classical music, and his recently published book, Recording the Classical Guitar (2021), won the 2022 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research (Classical Music).Justin Paterson is Professor of Music Production at London College of Music, University of West London, UK. He has numerous research publications as author and editor. His research interests include haptics, 3-D audio, and interactive music, fields that he has investigated over a number of funded projects. He is also an active music producer and composer; his latest album (with Robert Sholl) Les ombres du Fantôme was released in 2024 on Metier Records.Rob Toulson is Director of RT60 Ltd, who develop innovative music applications for mobile platforms. He was formerly Professor of Creative Industries at the University of Westminster and Director of the CoDE Research Institute at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. Rob is an author and editor of many books and articles, including Drum Sound and Drum Tuning (2021), published by Routledge.

• Part 1: Frameworks for Research and Analysis 1. LLMs and Custom GPTs as a Tool for Academic Research 2. Innovating Music Production Education: A Critical Listening Tool for Song Analysis 3. M.EL.O.S.: Promoting Music Research through an Innovative Platform of Interconnected Knowledge Repositories 4. Understanding How Reflective Practice is Used by Professional UK-Based Audio Mastering Engineers 5. Tutoring, Selling, Gearfluencing, or What? An Exploration of the Motives and Methods of Online Introductions to Music Production Technology 6. Investigating Rhythmic Entrainment Within Video Games 7. An Introduction to Pitch Strength in Contemporary Popular Music Analysis and Production 8. Hey Siri, Can You Write Me a Chipmunk Soul Track? A Snapshot of Current AI Tools for Music Production 9. Using Distortion as Part of Synthesis and Sampling Workflows 10. FFTimbre: Exploration of Timbre by Analysis and Synthesis Using Python, Ableton, and Large Language Models 11. Found in Space: An Analysis Synergy for Music's 3D Spatiality in the Dolby Atmos Format 12. With a Focus on the Lyrics: The Innovative Use of “Bad English” in Popular Songs from Sweden 13. Cyborg Soloists: An Infrastructure for Sharing Approaches to Innovative Technologies in Contemporary Music Part 2: Society, Community, and Environment 14. Heritagising Popular Music? Innovating with Leeds’s First Music Map App 15. Unlocking the Catalog: Revitalizing Norwegian Album Classics Through Online Communities 16. Can Music Change the World? Expanding Environmental Awareness Through Multisensory Experience Design Using Music and Food 17. Music Production and Accessibility for Visually Impaired Producers 18. Companionship and Sanctuary: Embracing Autistic Musicking Through Multimodal Improvisation 19. Immersed in Cabilla: Creating a Fulldome Experience of an Ancient Oak Woodland and Temperate Rainforest 20. Facilitating the Development of Interactive Wheelchair Sonifications