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Mechanical Techno in the studio: writing a track by building a kinetic sounding sculpture

Documentation video (youtube)

Full track live mixdown (youtube)

References

  • Musicking

Small, C. (1998) Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening. Wesleyan University Press.

  • ‘The musicking quadrant’ diagram
  • in time versus out of time musical engagement
  • action-sound-coupling

Jensenius, A. R. (2022) Sound Actions: Conceptualizing Musical Instruments. MIT Press.

  • Additive and subtractive studio methods

Eno, B. (1983) The Studio as Compositional Tool, in: Cox, C. and Warner, D. (2004) (eds.) Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. A&C Black, pp. 185–188.
Albiez, S. and Dockwray, R. (2016) Before and After Eno: Situating ‘The Recording Studio as Compositional Tool.’, in: Brian Eno: Oblique Music. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, pp. 139–173.

  • ‘‘Tubby fixes his improvisations in the form of records, and he draws on a number of structural, spatial, rhythmic and timbral techniques to stamp his identity on each version.’’

Williams, S. (2012) Tubby’s Dub Style: The Live Art of Record Production, in: Frith, S. and Zagorski-Thomas, S. (eds.) The art of record production: an introductory reader for a new academic field. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, pp. 235–246.

  • Imagined agency

Ferguson, J. R. (2013) Imagined Agency: Technology, Unpredictability, and Ambiguity, Contemporary Music Review, 32 (2–03), pp. 135–149. DOI:10.1080/07494467.2013.775810.

  • What does a machine do?

Parkinson, A. and Dunning, G. (2024) Improvising with Machines: A taxonomy of musical interactions, Organised Sound, 29 (3), pp. 340–351. DOI:10.1017/s1355771824000268.

  • ‘‘I am interested in perceptible processes. I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the music.’’

Reich, S. (1969) Music as a Gradual Process, in: Cox, C. and Warner, D. (2004) (eds.) Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. A&C Black, pp. 304–306.

  • Opaque mediation

Brovig-Hanssen, R. (2017) Listening to or Through Technology: Opaque and Transparent Mediation, in: Bennett, S. and Bates, E. (eds.) Critical approaches to the production of music and sound. New York NY: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 195–210.

  • Digital perfectionism

Strachan, R. (2017) Sonic Technologies: Popular Music, Digital Culture and the Creative Process. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.

  • Claviocentrism

Diduck, R. A. (2018) Mad skills: MIDI and music technology in the twentieth century. London: Repeater Books.

  • ‘‘It’s not really enjoyable to make music now …’’ Mikey Shulman, Suno AI

Guttridge-Hewitt, M. (2025, January 16) Suno AI CEO claims people “don’t enjoy” making music, DJ Mag. Available from: https://djmag.com/news/suno-ai-ceo-claims-people-dont-enjoy-making-music [Accessed 19 June 2025].