Lecture topics include
- Recording in complex environments. Practical methods for capturing performance clearly when space, time, ensemble size, or technical conditions are variable or constrained.
- Ethical engineering in creative systems. How technical decisions can protect, distort, or misrepresent artistic intent across recording, production, and release workflows.
- Preserving artistic intent in digital workflows. Source selection, version control, transfer decisions, metadata continuity, and the chain of custody from studio to listener.
- High-resolution audio in an AI-driven world. Decades of format changes — from analogue tape to digital, DVD-Audio to high-resolution streaming — have produced one consistent lesson: the tools change, but the power of a truly musical performance does not. This session addresses authenticity, the consequences of delivery decisions made far from the studio, and why engineering judgment is more consequential now — in an era of AI-generated and AI-processed audio — than at any point in the history of recorded music.