Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies

A critical examination of the twenty-first century fetishization of professional audio technologies, and how it led to a new social formation: gear cultures.

Gear: mixing consoles, outboard effects processors, microphones. These are professional studio recording-related technological objects—the tools of the recording industry—yet their omnipresence in the broader music industries and prosumer markets transcends the entrenched pro audio engineer guild. In Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Te...