Global Patchbay: Developing Popular Music Expertise Through International Collaboration

Mark Thorley, Gerhard Roux

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    Abstract

    The practice of music production is by nature, collaborative (Negus 1992, Kealey 1979). Furthermore, the connection which emerging technology now facilitates means that increasing numbers of practitioners collaborate with others around the world (Watson 2014). The way in which they do this is in keeping with Tapscott and Williams’ (2006) concept of peer-production. The collaborative and technological skills to do this are now needed to work in Popular Music production. Furthermore, learning through collaboration with others is an established and effective concept (Bruffree 1999, Gaunt et al. 2013). However, it is rarely practiced in Universities due to a variety of organisational and cultural barriers. This paper shares the practice of Global Patchbay, an initiative aimed to bring together Universities and practitioners around the world and to exploit the potential of collaborative learning in music. The project initially involved partners in the UK and the US, and continues with others from South Africa, Australia and New Zea-land. Learners have collaborated on recording projects, mixing projects, acoustic design projects and sound design projects using cutting edge partic-ipatory technologies as well as common audio production technologies.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationPopular Music Studies Today
    Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music 2017
    EditorsJulia Merrill
    Place of PublicationGermany
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages281-289
    Number of pages9
    ISBN (Electronic)978-3-658-17740-9
    ISBN (Print)978-3-658-17739-3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 23 Jun 2017

    Publication series

    NameSystematische Musikwissenschaft
    PublisherSpringer

    Keywords

    • Online collaboration
    • Emergence
    • Music Production
    • Popular Music
    • Peer Production

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Music
    • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
    • Management of Technology and Innovation
    • Media Technology

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