Recognising style, and identifying the use and effects of technology in recorded music

What this note covers

1. Recognise style from a bundle of musical evidence
2. Separate stylistic evidence from genre guessing
3. Recording and microphone perspective shape the sound
4. Technology can organise rhythm and structure
5. Technology contributes to stylistic identity
6. Worked style-and-technology analysis
7. 7. Style inference case: evidence, context and technological process
8. 8. Technology audit: source, process, result and function

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