Artistic decision-making and strategy in self-produced music production projects
Kiiskilä, Aleksi (2021)
2021
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2021052410676
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2021052410676
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The purpose of this thesis is to provide an overview of artistic decision-making process in musical productions, from the perspective of self-producing musical artists. In addition, it aims to offer guidance in accomplishing successful and meaningful projects, such as songs or albums.
The thesis was written for modern artist-producers, who write songs and take responsibility for producing them into existence on their own. More specifically it aims to provide non-technical methods for overcoming common artist-producer problems, such as vision loss and lack of focus. The core is in strategy utilization and decision-making-oriented approach to music production.
A literature review was carried out to explore themes related to music production, decision-making, strategy and philosophy. The emphasis was on non-technical attitude, philosophy behind music production and purposefulness.
The media part was built around a full self-written and produced folk-rock album which acts as a practical example for concretizing the discussed theories. Description of the album making process demonstrates the methods and approaches of this thesis phase by phase, and aims to validate their usage in practice.
The thesis was written for modern artist-producers, who write songs and take responsibility for producing them into existence on their own. More specifically it aims to provide non-technical methods for overcoming common artist-producer problems, such as vision loss and lack of focus. The core is in strategy utilization and decision-making-oriented approach to music production.
A literature review was carried out to explore themes related to music production, decision-making, strategy and philosophy. The emphasis was on non-technical attitude, philosophy behind music production and purposefulness.
The media part was built around a full self-written and produced folk-rock album which acts as a practical example for concretizing the discussed theories. Description of the album making process demonstrates the methods and approaches of this thesis phase by phase, and aims to validate their usage in practice.