Balancing Audio: Towards a Cognitive Structure of Sound Interaction in Music Production

Mads Walther-Hansen

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46282-0_14

Balancing Audio: Towards a Cognitive Structure of Sound Interaction in Music Production

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This paper explores the concept of balance in music production and examines the role of conceptual metaphors in reasoning about audio editing. Balance may be the most central concept in record production, however, the way we cognitively understand and respond meaningfully to a mix requiring balance is not thoroughly understood. In this paper I treat balance as a metaphor that we use to reason about several different actions in music production, such as adjusting levels, editing the frequency spectrum or the spatiality of the recording. This study is based on an exploration of a linguistic corpus of sound engineering literature. Using this corpus I show how corpus data may contribute to better understand the relation between embodied patterns of experience and hands-on interaction with sound.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Music, Mind, and Embodiment : 11th International Symposium, CMMR 2015
Number of pages	15
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2016
Pages	228-242
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-46281-3
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-46282-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46282-0_14
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	11th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research : Music, Mind, and Embodiment - Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom Duration: 16 Jun 2015 → 19 Jun 2015 http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/cmmr2015/

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Conference	11th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research
Location	Plymouth University
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Plymouth
Period	16/06/2015 → 19/06/2015
Internet address	http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/cmmr2015/

Series	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	9617
ISSN	0302-9743

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Walther-Hansen, M 2016, Balancing Audio: Towards a Cognitive Structure of Sound Interaction in Music Production. in Music, Mind, and Embodiment: 11th International Symposium, CMMR 2015. Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9617, pp. 228-242, 11th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research , Plymouth, United Kingdom, 16/06/2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46282-0_14

Balancing Audio: Towards a Cognitive Structure of Sound Interaction in Music Production. / Walther-Hansen, Mads.
Music, Mind, and Embodiment: 11th International Symposium, CMMR 2015. Springer, 2016. p. 228-242 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 9617).

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