Ryan Stables is an occasional collaborator and all around brilliant person. He started the annual Workshop on Intelligent Music Production (WIMP) in 2015. Its been going strong ever since, with the 5th WIMP co-located with DAFx, this past September. The workshop series focuses on the application of intelligent systems (including expert systems, machine learning, AI) to music recording, mixing, mastering and related aspects of audio production or sound engineering.
Ryan had the idea for a book about the subject, and myself (Josh Reiss) and Brecht De Man (another all around brilliant person) were recruited as co-authors. What resulted was a massive amount of writing, editing, refining, re-editing and so on. We all contributed big chunks of content, but Brecht pulled it all together and turned it into something really high quality giving a comprehensive overview of the field, suitable for a wide range of audiences.
And the book is finally published today, October 31st! Its part of the AES Presents series by Focal Press, a division of Routledge. You can get it from the publisher, from Amazon or any of the other usual places.
And here’s the official blurb
Intelligent Music Production presents the state of the art in approaches, methodologies and systems from the emerging field of automation in music mixing and mastering. This book collects the relevant works in the domain of innovation in music production, and orders them in a way that outlines the way forward: first, covering our knowledge of the music production processes; then by reviewing the methodologies in classification, data collection and perceptual evaluation; and finally by presenting recent advances on introducing intelligence in audio effects, sound engineering processes and music production interfaces.
Intelligent Music Production is a comprehensive guide, providing an introductory read for beginners, as well as a crucial reference point for experienced researchers, producers, engineers and developers.
Intelligent sound engineering 