Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Get Your Double Kicks on Route 666
- Part I Metal, Technology and Practice
- 3 Mapping the Origins of Heaviness between 1970 and 1995
- 4 Technical Ecstasy
- 5 Not from the Mind But the Heart
- 6 Timbral Metrics for Analysis of Metal Production
- Part II Metal and History
- Part III Metal and Identity
- Part IV Metal Activities
- Part V Modern Metal Genres
- Part VI Global Metal
- Select Academic Bibliography
- Select Journalistic Bibliography
- Index
6 - Timbral Metrics for Analysis of Metal Production
Then, Now and What Next?
from Part I - Metal, Technology and Practice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2023
- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Get Your Double Kicks on Route 666
- Part I Metal, Technology and Practice
- 3 Mapping the Origins of Heaviness between 1970 and 1995
- 4 Technical Ecstasy
- 5 Not from the Mind But the Heart
- 6 Timbral Metrics for Analysis of Metal Production
- Part II Metal and History
- Part III Metal and Identity
- Part IV Metal Activities
- Part V Modern Metal Genres
- Part VI Global Metal
- Select Academic Bibliography
- Select Journalistic Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter presents an overview of timbre in metal production from a psychoacoustic and computational musicology perspective, particularly focusing on the use of acoustic feature extraction. Both performance and recording technology have undoubtedly influenced tone in metal productions, but how can the underlying acoustic feature sets shaped by this technology inform production and analysis? This chapter includes an applied feature set extraction of stems from My Dying Bride, and concludes with a speculative view of how such features could be used in the training of machine learning classifiers.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music , pp. 70 - 82Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023