

Through MOTTOsound (Russ now works freelance in the industry as a mastering engineer, writer, and consultant.


A former board member of the Music Producers Guild, Russ helped form their Mastering Group. Russ is a member of the Audio Engineering Society and co-founder of the UK Mastering Section there. He has over two decades’ experience of all things audio. Russ Hepworth-Sawyer started life as a sound engineer and occasional producer. Focusing on areas such as genre, technology, concepts, and contexts of production, Hepworth-Sawyer, Hodgson, and Marrington have compiled key research from practitioners and academics to present a comprehensive view of how music production has established itself and changed over the years. Bringing together the academic study of music production and practical techniques, this book illustrates the latest research on producing music. Producing Music presents cutting-edge research across topics that both strengthen and broaden the range of the discipline as it currently stands. Producing Music During the last two decades, the field of music production has attracted considerable interest from the academic community, more recently becoming established as an important and flourishing research discipline in its own right. 2 Socio-Technical Networks and Music Production Competencies: Towards an Actor Network Theory of Hip Hop Beat-Makingģ Boom Bap Ex Machina: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and the Akai MPCĤ The DAW, Electronic Music Aesthetics, and Genre Transgression in Music Production: The Case of Heavy Metal Musicĥ Antonio Carlos Jobim: The Author as ProducerĦ Compost Listening: Vaporwave and the Dissection of Record Productionħ Classical Production: Situating Historically Informed Performances in Small RoomsĨ The Politics of Digitizing Analogue Recording Technologiesĩ Producing Music for Immersive Audio Experiencesġ1 Popular Music Production in Laptop Studios: Creative Workflows as Problem-Solving Within Ableton Liveġ2 Real-Time, Remote, Interactive Recording Sessions: Music Production Without Boundariesġ3 Tracking With Processing and Coloring as You Goġ4 Working With Sound in the DAW: Towards a New Materiality of the Audio-Objectġ5 Coproduction: Towards a Typology of Collaborative Practice in Music Productionġ6 Narrative and the Art of Record Productionġ7 “Clever” Tools and Social Technologies: To What Extent Does Wider Access to Technology Necessitate a Step Change in Approaches to Teaching Music Production?ġ8 Contemporary Production Success: A Roundtable Discussion With Mid-Career Music Production Professionalsġ9 Conversations With Women in Music Production
