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No abstract available. / Thesis (M.Mus.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1999.

What is a record producer? There is a degree of mystery and uncertainty about just what goes on behind the studio door. Some producers are seen as Svengali-like figures manipulating artists into mass consumer product. Producers are sometimes seen as mere technicians whose job is simply to set up a few microphones and press the record button. Close examination of the recording process will show how far this is from a complete picture. Artists are special—they come with an inspiration, and a talent, but also with a variety of complications, and in many ways a recording studio can seem the least likely place for creative expression and for an affective performance to happen. The task of the record producer is to engage with these artists and their songs and turn these potentials into form through the technology of the recording studio. The purpose of the exercise is to disseminate this fixed form to an imagined audience—generally in the hope that this audience will prove to be real. Finding an audience is the role of the record company. A record producer must also engage with the commercial expectations of the interests that underwrite a recording. This dissertation considers three fields of interest in the recording process: the performer and the song; the technology of the recording context; and the commercial ambitions of the record company—and positions the record producer as a nexus at the interface of all three. The author reports his structured recollection of five recordings, with three different artists, that all achieved substantial commercial success. The processes are considered from the author‘s perspective as the record producer, and from inception of the project to completion of the recorded work. What were the processes of engagement? Do the actions reported conform to the template of nexus? This dissertation proposes that in all recordings the function of producer/nexus is present and necessary—it exists in the interaction of the artistry and the technology. The art of record production is to engage with these artists and the songs they bring and turn these potentials into form.

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The thesis explores the use of religious themes and the notion of self-design in contemporary art practice. It argues that art today that addresses religion does so primarily for its rhetorical function: for a recognizable pattern of persuasiveness, which is ultimately defined by its established mechanisms of belief. Furthermore, it suggests that it is through an engagement with this secularized rhetoric that the art viewer today can potentially be provoked to re-create oneself in ones own terms; or, in Richard Rorty's terms, to 'revocabularize'.

Thesis (MPhil (Music))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the role of natural or realistic audio recordings in popular music in the context of the different nature of popular music where the goal is not necessarily the recreation of the original acoustic space. Traditional microphone techniques are investigated from the perspective of the identifiable characteristics of popular music to establish the role of microphone techniques to obtain a desired outcome. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die rol van natuurlike of realistiese klankopnames in populêre musiek in die lig daarvan dat die aard van populêre opnames verskil van reproduksie wat poog om die opnameruimte akoesties te herskep. Tradisionele mikrofoontegnieke word bestudeer vanuit die hoek van die identifiseerbare eienskappe van populêre musiek om te bepaal watter rol mikrofoontegniek kan speel om ’n verlangde uitkoms te bewerkstellig.

Thesis (MMUS)--Stellenbosch University, 2015 / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the role and implementation of the checklist in audio production studios. The goal of this study is to limit frequent human error by compiling and testing a checklist to be used in these studios. Procedures and checklists implemented in the life-critical elds of medicine and aviation have been studied and used as a framework, in order to shape this checklist to be relevant to a wide variety of audio production studios. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die rol en toepassings van die kontrolelys in klankateljees. Die doel van hierdie studie is om te ondersoek of die gebruik van kontrolelyste aangewend kan word om menslike foute te beperk, deur middel van die samestelling en toetsing van `n kontrolelys vir gebruik in hierdie ateljees. Werkswyses en kontrolelyste wat tans in die lewenskritiese sektore van lugvaart en die mediese wetenskappe benut word, is bestudeer en as raamwerk benut om te verseker dat hierdie kontrolelys toepaslik sal wees vir `n wye verskeidenheid klankproduksie-ateljees.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 1998. / Online version produced by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Title from title screen (viewed Nov. 8, 2001). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-183). Online version of the print edition.