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Heaviness in Metal Music Production (HiMMP)

金属音乐制作中的沉重（HiMMP）

基本信息

批准号：
AH/T010991/1
负责人：
Jan-Peter Herbst
金额：
$ 25.47万
依托单位：
University of Huddersfield
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT010991%2F1
关键词：
Heaviness Metal Music Production HiMMP

项目摘要

Since Black Sabbath's self-titled debut album in 1970, metal music has been on a quest for greater heaviness. Although performances have become more extreme, the music's heaviness has benefited from numerous advances in music technology, facilitating dense walls of distorted guitars and hyperreal drum performances. From cultural and musicological perspectives through to vocational and practice-based production studies, there is a lack of understanding of what heaviness is in a recorded and mixed form. In a music genre that is approaching its half-century of existence, this research is likely to have significant global impact on our understanding of the genre's fundamental qualities. At present, there is a deficit of music production knowledge and educational material that enables those interested to understand how top producers capture, manipulate and present the various qualities that equate to heaviness.This project will examine how seven leading metal producers specialising in different subgenres define heaviness, and how they process and control the constituent aspects of heaviness during the mixing of recordings. It will analyse the producers' understandings of heaviness, their individual approaches, and how the characteristics of the musical material influence their mixing decisions. It will lead to a theory of heaviness derived from systematic empirical analysis. The project takes seven mainly sequential steps:1) After compiling existing research on heaviness, the team - consisting of two metal music producers, one also a practitioner, one a musicologist - will 2) compose one metal song with clearly defined sections of three contrasting subgenres (doom metal, symphonic power metal, modern extreme metal) based on previous stylistic analysis. 3) The song will be recorded to professional standards. To allow multiple production choices, multi-amplifier/cabinet setups and clean drum hits for sample reinforcement will be recorded with a variety of recording techniques. 4) The experiment will be pilot-tested with a UK producer. 5) The styles of the main producers will be analysed to inform the experiment and data analysis. 6) The recorded song will be mixed by 7 leading metal producers. The producers present their results to the team, followed by in-depth interviews on the approach taken. The mixing and the interviews will be filmed with multiple cameras and screen-capture. 7) The video documentation and interviews will allow analysis of the producers' individual mixing approaches. They will reveal whether the subgenres require distinct production approaches and whether there are overarching features of heaviness across diverse subgenres of metal. The data will show how leading producers approach the mixing of a metal track, thus documenting the process in a way that is useful as a learning resource for music producers. The analysis of the producers' mixes will be an audible demonstration of their individual understandings of heaviness, showing the breadth - or lack thereof - of possibilities of achieving heaviness. These analyses will form the basis for a theory of heaviness in metal music production filling a gap in knowledge in the disciplines of metal music studies, musicology and the art of record production. The findings will be published in a research monograph, two refereed articles in Metal Music Studies and Popular Music, one practice-oriented article in Sound on Sound, and presented at two international conferences. All project material including sheet music of the song, the raw recordings, the 7 mix project files, the edited videos of the producers' sessions and interviews will be available on the project website. The resources provide authentic, first-hand documentation demonstrating the crucial decision-making processes and the techniques involved in high-end metal music production for a full song. No print magazine, video service nor commercial educational provider offers comparable resources.

自1970年黑色安息日的同名首张专辑以来，金属音乐一直在寻求更大的沉重感。虽然表演变得更加极端，但音乐的沉重感得益于音乐技术的众多进步，促进了扭曲吉他和超现实鼓表演的密集墙壁。从文化和音乐学的角度，通过职业和实践为基础的生产研究，有一个缺乏了解什么是沉重的记录和混合形式。在一个已经存在了半个世纪的音乐流派中，这项研究可能会对我们理解该流派的基本品质产生重大的全球影响。目前，音乐制作知识和教育材料的不足，使有兴趣的人能够了解顶级制作人如何捕捉，操纵和呈现相当于沉重的各种品质。这个项目将研究七个领先的金属制作人如何专注于不同的子流派定义沉重，以及他们如何处理和控制录音混合过程中沉重的组成部分。它将分析制作人对沉重的理解，他们的个人方法，以及音乐材料的特性如何影响他们的混合决定。通过系统的实证分析，形成了一种沉重的理论。该项目主要分为七个步骤：1）在整理了现有的关于沉重的研究之后，由两名金属音乐制作人组成的团队，一名是实践者，一名是音乐学家，2）根据之前的风格分析，创作一首金属歌曲，其中明确定义了三种截然不同的子流派（厄运金属，交响力量金属，现代极端金属）。3)这首歌将按专业标准录制。为了允许多种生产选择，多个放大器/内阁设置和干净的鼓打击样品加固将记录与各种录音技术。4)该实验将与英国生产商进行试点测试。5)将分析主要生产商的风格，为实验和数据分析提供信息。6)这首歌将由7位主要的金属制作人混音。制片人向团队介绍他们的结果，然后就所采取的方法进行深入采访。混音和采访将使用多台摄像机和屏幕捕捉进行拍摄。7)视频文件和采访将允许分析生产者的个人混合方法。他们将揭示这些子类型是否需要不同的制作方法，以及在不同的金属子类型中是否存在重金属的总体特征。这些数据将显示领先的制作人如何处理金属曲目的混合，从而以一种有用的方式记录这一过程，作为音乐制作人的学习资源。对制作人混音的分析将是他们对沉重的个人理解的听觉展示，显示出实现沉重的可能性的广度-或缺乏广度。这些分析将构成重金属音乐制作理论的基础，填补金属音乐研究，音乐学和唱片制作艺术学科的知识空白。研究结果将发表在一本研究专著中，两篇参考文章发表在金属音乐研究和流行音乐上，一篇实践性文章发表在声音上，并在两个国际会议上发表。所有项目材料，包括歌曲的乐谱，原始录音，7个混音项目文件，制作人会议和采访的编辑视频将在项目网站上提供。这些资源提供了真实的第一手文件，展示了关键的决策过程和高端金属音乐制作完整歌曲所涉及的技术。没有印刷杂志、视频服务或商业教育提供商提供可比的资源。