The architecture of a recording studio has a significant effect on the sound of a recording and on the medial practice itself. For this reason, technological apparatuses but also the spatial logic of production sites have cultural meanings. This book explicitly addresses the aesthetic and semantic relations between acoustic media and the spatial architectures of studio culture using a theoretical concept of power.

Tomy Brautschek, Institute of Media and Cultural Studies, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.