Can modern composers learn something from the production techniques used in the pop industry?
Even if the technological advances in recording techniques have been immense in the past few decades, very little has changed in the approach of recording the majority of classical and contemporary music. Almost all other music genres have found creative uses of the recording technology and post production and used it to add something new to their music. The ultimate extreme can of course be found in the mass production lines of the pop industry where even the cheapest music can sound neat and slick due to clever recordings and post production. Not to claim that different recording techniques or post productions is the right way for every piece of contemporary music, but could it be that we’re being too conservative when it comes to recording new works? First let’s look at how a typical “classical” (here meaning both classical and contemporary) record is recorded, explained in a simplified way. Basically the main sound we hear on a classical record is from two microphones positioned in
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