"They're all going out to something weird": workflow, legacy and metadata in the music production process

In this paper we use results from two ethnographic studies of the music production process to examine some key issues regarding how work is currently accomplished in studio production environments. These issues relate in particular to workflows and how metadata is adapted to the specific needs of sp...

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Main Authors: McGarry, Glenn, Tolmie, Peter, Benford, Steve, Greenhalgh, Chris, Chamberlain, Alan
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Published: ACM 2017
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author McGarry, Glenn
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Greenhalgh, Chris
Chamberlain, Alan
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description In this paper we use results from two ethnographic studies of the music production process to examine some key issues regarding how work is currently accomplished in studio production environments. These issues relate in particular to workflows and how metadata is adapted to the specific needs of specific parts of the process. We find that there can be significant tensions between how reasoning is applied to metadata at different stages of production and that this can lead to overheads where metadata has to be either changed or created anew to make the process work. On the basis of these findings we articulate some of the potential solutions we are now examining. These centre in particular upon the notions of Digital/Dynamic Musical Objects and flexible metadata shells.
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spelling nottingham-408082020-05-04T18:33:34Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40808/ "They're all going out to something weird": workflow, legacy and metadata in the music production process McGarry, Glenn Tolmie, Peter Benford, Steve Greenhalgh, Chris Chamberlain, Alan In this paper we use results from two ethnographic studies of the music production process to examine some key issues regarding how work is currently accomplished in studio production environments. These issues relate in particular to workflows and how metadata is adapted to the specific needs of specific parts of the process. We find that there can be significant tensions between how reasoning is applied to metadata at different stages of production and that this can lead to overheads where metadata has to be either changed or created anew to make the process work. On the basis of these findings we articulate some of the potential solutions we are now examining. These centre in particular upon the notions of Digital/Dynamic Musical Objects and flexible metadata shells. ACM 2017-02-25 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed McGarry, Glenn, Tolmie, Peter, Benford, Steve, Greenhalgh, Chris and Chamberlain, Alan (2017) "They're all going out to something weird": workflow, legacy and metadata in the music production process. In: 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW'17), 25 February – 1 March 2017, Portland, Oregon, USA,. dmos ethnography ethnomethodology labeling metadata music production studio environments workflow design CSCW HCI http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2998181.2998325
spellingShingle dmos
ethnography
ethnomethodology
labeling
metadata
music production
studio environments
workflow
design
CSCW
HCI
McGarry, Glenn
Tolmie, Peter
Benford, Steve
Greenhalgh, Chris
Chamberlain, Alan
"They're all going out to something weird": workflow, legacy and metadata in the music production process
title "They're all going out to something weird": workflow, legacy and metadata in the music production process
title_full "They're all going out to something weird": workflow, legacy and metadata in the music production process
title_fullStr "They're all going out to something weird": workflow, legacy and metadata in the music production process
title_full_unstemmed "They're all going out to something weird": workflow, legacy and metadata in the music production process
title_short "They're all going out to something weird": workflow, legacy and metadata in the music production process
title_sort "they're all going out to something weird": workflow, legacy and metadata in the music production process
topic dmos
ethnography
ethnomethodology
labeling
metadata
music production
studio environments
workflow
design
CSCW
HCI
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40808/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40808/