Innovation in Music: Sound and Place is a groundbreaking collection, bringing together instructors, researchers, and professionals to explore the multifaceted relationship between music, sound, and place.

Insightful contributions consider how place aligns with music production across a range of themes, including recording, mixing and mastering, performance and composition, music business and promotion, music technology, music research methodology, diversity, equality and representation, and sustainability in music.

This is recommended reading for students, researchers, and professionals looking for global insights into the fields of music production, music business, and music technology.

Matthew Lovett is Head of the School of Creative Arts at Bath Spa University, UK, an award-winning creative musician, and a published researcher.

Jan-Olof Gullö is Professor in Music Production, Royal College of Music, Department of Music Production, Stockholm, Sweden, and Affiliated Professor of Music Education, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Linnaeus University, Sweden.

Russ Hepworth-Sawyer is a mastering engineer with MOTTOsound, Associate Professor at York St John University, UK, and the managing editor of the Perspectives on Music Production series for Routledge.

Rob Toulson is Director of RT60 Ltd, which develops innovative music applications for mobile platforms. He was formerly Professor of Creative Industries at University of Westminster and Director of the CoDE Research Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. Rob is an author and editor of many books and articles, including Drum Sound and Drum Tuning, published by Routledge in 2021.

Justin Paterson is Professor of Music Production at London College of Music in the University of West London, UK, where he leads the MA Advanced Music Technology.

Mark Marrington is Associate Professor in Music Production at York St John University, having previously held teaching positions at Leeds College of Music and the University of Leeds. His research interests include metal music, music technology and creativity, the contemporary classical guitar and twentieth-century British classical music, and his recently published book, Recording the Classical Guitar (2021), won the 2022 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research (Classical Music).