Music Technology in Live Performance

Music Technology in Live Performance explores techniques to augment live musical performance and represents a comprehensive guide to best practices in music technology for live performance.

This book presents a practical and accessible introduction to the theories of liveness and an array of live performance technologies and techniques. Areas covered include analogue and digital audio, live sound, the recording studio, and electronic music, revealing best professional practices and expert tips, alongside an exploration of approaches to increasing the exchange of energy in live performance.

Music Technology in Live Performance is an ideal introduction for students of music performance, music production, and music technology, and a vital resource for professional musicians, producers, and technology developers.

?What Canfer has achieved is to condense a complex and sprawling field of knowledge and practice, usually expressed as an intuitive process akin to the mystic arts, into a clear, practical and digestible framework. By examining all of the human and technological processes in music performance through the lens of energy exchange, he has given us a precise and useful tool with which to demystify and explain music tech ? both extant and emergent.?

Andrew Dubber, Director, MTF Labs

?A holistic and well-structured introduction to all technology in and around the stage. A must-read for producers and live sound engineers alike.?

Kirsten Hermes, Electronic Music Producer and Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster

?A timely and authoritative exposition of the state of the art. Bridging the theoretical and the practical, it is sure to inspire as much as to inform.?

Bill Evans, Producer (Flying Colors, Deep Purple, Steve Vai, Alice Cooper)