September 12-14, 2024
Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK
Change and Continuity: Traditions, Tensions and Transformations in Music Production
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The Society for Music Production Research is dedicated to building knowledge and dialogue among practitioners and scholars related to all aspects of music production. SMPR promotes research, publication, and networking among scholars and practitioners in the domains of creation, technologies, historical and industry contexts, aesthetics, and reception.
SMPR seeks to encourage and promote the established field of music production research through publications, conferences, and networking events. The field is broad and includes all aspects of music production.
The results of the SMPR Executive Committee election will be announced at the General Assembly of this conference. To participate in this election as either a candidate and/or voter, you must be an SMPR Member.
Andreya Triana is a MOBO-nominated singer-songwriter from South London. With a sound rooted in soul, jazz, and pop, her smoky, husky voice embodies female empowerment and individuality. After attending the Red Bull Music Academy in Australia in 2006, she collaborated with Bonobo and Flying Lotus before signing with Ninja Tune in 2010. She has released three solo albums: Lost Where I Belong (2010), Giants (2015), and Life in Colour (2019). Her music has been featured on TV shows including Grey's Anatomy and The Good Wife. In 2023, she appeared in the Netflix film The Statistical Probability of Love At First Sight. Andreya is currently focused on creating new solo material and writing for other artists.
Olga FitzRoy is a renowned recording and mixing engineer and former Executive Director at the Music Producers Guild (MPG). She has worked on scores for The Crown (Martin Phipps), Doctor Who (Segun Akinola), The Mauritanian (Tom Hodge), Gentleman Jack (Murray Gold), and The Innocents (Carly Paradis). Olga has also worked with major acts including Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Muse, and Dua Lipa & Martin Garrix. She recorded and mixed Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch’s scores for Living and Netflix’s The Strays, and recently engineered Herdís Stefánsdóttir’s score for M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin. Olga is an advocate for women’s issues and campaigned for Parental Pay Equality, leading to a new bill being debated in Parliament. She has called for support for UK recording studios.
Shara Rambarran is a musicologist and senior lecturer in music, business, and media at the University of Brighton. She authored Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era and co-runs the Art of Record Production conferences. Shara specializes in remixology, digital technology, and music production, and serves on editorial boards for various music journals. She co-edited several books including The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality and The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies. Shara is also Bloomsbury’s Music and Sound’s biographer and musicologist for Spotify’s Decode music podcast.
Simon Zagorski-Thomas is a Professor of Music at the University of West London. He has taught record production, recording, research methods, popular music studies, and electronic music composition for over 20 years. Simon organized the first Art of Record Production conference in 2005 and co-founded the Journal on the Art of Record Production. He established the 21st Century Music Practice research network and has led UK Research Council funded projects on studio performance. Simon is the author of The Musicology of Record Production and Practical Musicology, and co-edited volumes on the Art of Record Production and music production handbooks.
William Moylan is Distinguished University Professor and Professor Emeritus of Music and Sound Recording Technology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has taught recording techniques, critical listening, music theory, and recording analysis for over 40 years. Dr. Moylan’s research focuses on the intersection of sounds in recordings, music, lyrics, and psychoacoustics. He has worked with both popular and classical artists, leading to several Grammy nominations. William is the author of Recording Analysis: How the Record Shapes the Song and Understanding and Crafting the Mix. He is co-editor of Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks.
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