Skip to Content
Cloud-Based Music Production
book

Cloud-Based Music Production

by Matthew T. Shelvock
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
5h 24m
English
Focal Press
Content preview from Cloud-Based Music Production

4

Hearing for Your Audience—Beat Production as a Psychoacoustic Art

In this chapter, I focus on the ontology of beat production as a species of record creation. Record production is a psychoacoustic art form, where one person (or group) encodes an audio document (i.e., a record), and a second person (or group) receives and listens to the same document. Before this document is sent away, the person encoding also listens to it—typically, revising the audio numerous times—before eventually finalizing and distributing it.

In this way, producers hear records for listeners, on their behalf, long before these documents are released or sent away. In fact, the record creation process requires producers to constantly scrutinize their work so that they ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Music Production: Recording

Music Production: Recording

Carlos Lellis
Music as a Chariot

Music as a Chariot

Richard K. Thomas

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781351137089