Simon Zagorski-Thomas is Professor at the London College of Music (University of West London) and is ex-chairman and co-founder of the Association for the Study of the Art of Record Production.
Katia Isakoff is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist music producer, with album releases through Mute Records, EMI, BMG, Universal, Metamatic, and Altersonic Sound (a co-owned label and studio: altersonicsound.com).
Sophie Stevance is Canada Chair Research in research-creation in music. She is professor in musicology at the Faculty of Music, University Laval, Quebec City (Canada), head of Observatoire interdisciplinaire de creation et de recherche en musique (OICRM-ULaval), Laboratoire de recherche-creation en musique et multimedia (LARCEM) and Groupe de recherche-creation en musique (grecem.oicrm.org).
Serge Lacasse is professor of musicology, specializing in popular music, at the Faculty of Music, Universite Laval in Quebec City, Canada. He heads the Laboratoire audionumerique de recherche et de creation (larc.oicrm.org).
Preface: A Quebecer Pioneer of Music Recording - Andre Perry and Gerald Cote, Introduction - Simon Zagorski-Thomas, Katia Isakoff, Sophie Stevance and Serge Lacasse Part 1 - The Creative Use Of Technology 1. Tanya Tagaq: A Cosmopolitan Artist in the Studio - Sophie Stevance and Serge Lacasse 2. Moving at High Speed Into the Future: Notes on British Postpunk Record Production - Albin Zak 3. Mixing with Quotation Marks: Restrictive Mashups and Contextual Transformation - Ragnhild Brovig-Hanssen 4. Heaviness in Three Dimensions: The Use of Sonic Space in Contemporary Metal Music Production - Mark Mynett Part 2 - The Social Interactions Of Production Activity 5. Who's the Producer? - Mike Howlett 6. Random Access Changed Everything - Richard James Burgess 7. The Virtual producer in the Recording Studio: Media Networks in Long Distance Peripheral Performances - Isabel Campelo Part 3 - Forms Of Theoretical Analysis 8. The Systems Approach to Creative Practice: The Case of Supersonic 2003-2004 - Phillip McIntyre 9. What is a Jazz Record Anyway? Lennie Tristano and the Use of Extended Studio Techniques in Jazz - Marian Jago 10. Sound Engineering in the Recording Studio as Creative Practice - Paul Thompson and Phillip McIntyre 11. Studio Recording and World Music Making in Central America: The Case of the Garifuna Paranda, From Local Revival to Internationalization - Ons Barnat 12. Haydn in Modern Dress: Applying Experimental Contemporary Production Techniques to the Classical Repertoire - Simon Zagorski-Thomas