Following the Instruments, Designers, and Users: The Case of the Fairlight CMI (2015)
Journal Article
Harkins, P. (2015). Following the Instruments, Designers, and Users: The Case of the Fairlight CMI. Journal on the Art of Record Production,

The focus of this article is the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument (CMI), which is generally regarded as the first commercially available digital sampler. However, its designers, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, were primarily interested in the use of... Read More about Following the Instruments, Designers, and Users: The Case of the Fairlight CMI.

Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice (2015)
Journal Article
Moir, Z., & Medbøe, H. (2015). Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice. Journal of Music, Technology and Education, 8(2), 147-161. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte.8.2.147_1

This article reports on a qualitative study of four undergraduate students specializing in popular music composition, and examines links and overlaps between three related areas: participants’ interpretations and definitions of the term ‘composition’... Read More about Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice.