Distortion in Music Production (ePub)

Gary Bromham is a composer, artist, music producer and mix engineer. Also a researcher and published author who recently completed a PhD in Computer Science, specifically in music and timbre perception, at Queen Mary, University London. He began his career as a Fairlight programmer and a tape op at Trident Studios in London. He subsequently began his songwriting and music production career in Iceland. During this time, he co-produced the 1988 Icelandic Eurovision entry, made an album with jazz-funk band Mezzoforte, and worked with progressive artist, Bjork. Whilst collaborating with Andrew Ridgeley, of Wham, on his solo album, he was also fortunate enough to work with George Michael on some of his album, Listen Without Prejudice. As a result of his collaboration with George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley he was offered his first publishing contract with Warner Chappell Music in 1990. This proved to be a great success. He has written with many varied and successful artists and songwriters including Sheryl Crow, Bow Wow Wow, The Tubes, Robbie Neville, Eddie Money and The Fixx to name but a few, spending a large period of his time working in New York, Nashville and Los Angeles. Later collaborations include Editors, Graham Coxon from Blur, The Maccabees, Lulu, Delta Goodrem and again Sheryl Crow on her single, 'Soak up the Sun'. He was also signed to EMI Records in 1996 as a recording artist in the band The Big Blue. They released two singles and achieved moderate success. He has just completed his PhD at Queen Mary University London where he is researching the role of retro aesthetics in music production and how some of these features are used in intelligent music production systems. He has several publications in this ever-expanding field. He is currently recording as an artist using the project name Convergence.

Austin Moore is a senior lecturer and course leader of sound engineering and music production courses at the University of Huddersfield, UK, where he