Prenatal pain in album making process. : How to anticipate and understand stressful situations and whether we can learn something from childbirth.
Hiilesmaa, Kai (2015)
Hiilesmaa, Kai
Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu
2015
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201501191437
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201501191437
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In this thesis, the target is to map the situations and reasons why the pressure increases the closer the end comes in album making and how the production team could avoid stressful situations in advance. The final purpose is to make producers work more creatively and effectively. As a result, the artist’s music can be more crystallised and make it more successful.
The thesis discusses the phases of the whole album making process briefly, and then the emphasis is a little more on the mixing phase. Because there was hardly any literature available of the mental side of the album making process, the main emphasis is in interviews and literature that handles the mental side of the other areas where is high pressure and expertise on the working process.
As comparing a song making process to a childbirth is so common, I wanted to take a specific look into this matter and try to find out, if something interesting could be found by juxtaposing the birth of a child to the birth of an album. Music making can be stressful, and the thesis discusses also how stress appears when a matter of life and death is at hand.
In addition to interviews with music professionals, I did an interview with an obstetrician and with a psychotherapist, who are experts in the treatment of the human mind in very stressful situations. I also compared a producer’s occupation to a doctor’s occupation and transilluminated what kind of similarities could be found and whether a music producer can learn a lesson from a doctor’s way of handling the patient.
At the end of this thesis there is an example case. I was the producer in the production of Estado Novo album where I made observations of the mental side of the production.
The thesis discusses the phases of the whole album making process briefly, and then the emphasis is a little more on the mixing phase. Because there was hardly any literature available of the mental side of the album making process, the main emphasis is in interviews and literature that handles the mental side of the other areas where is high pressure and expertise on the working process.
As comparing a song making process to a childbirth is so common, I wanted to take a specific look into this matter and try to find out, if something interesting could be found by juxtaposing the birth of a child to the birth of an album. Music making can be stressful, and the thesis discusses also how stress appears when a matter of life and death is at hand.
In addition to interviews with music professionals, I did an interview with an obstetrician and with a psychotherapist, who are experts in the treatment of the human mind in very stressful situations. I also compared a producer’s occupation to a doctor’s occupation and transilluminated what kind of similarities could be found and whether a music producer can learn a lesson from a doctor’s way of handling the patient.
At the end of this thesis there is an example case. I was the producer in the production of Estado Novo album where I made observations of the mental side of the production.