Compositional Mixing: An exploration into sonic ownership in contemporary music production.

2022

This thesis examines a presumption wherein mixing within contemporary practices exists as a process with compositional implications, a term coined as compositional mixing. This presupposition is examined through two lines of inquiry: 1) Are mixing and composition existing interdependently in contemporary music production? and 2) What implications do mixing ideologies have on contemporary music production? To answer these questions, an extensive literature review, eight interviews, and five detailed compositional mixing examples were conducted. The accumulation of the results concluded that: 1) There is evidence that supports interdependency between composition and mixing in contemporary mus…