ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the networking technologies that allow for the sharing of digital music files and simultaneous real-time virtual collaboration between recording studios in geographically distant locations. After setting the economic context behind the networking of studios through an examination of the project-based nature of work in the music industry, the chapter considers the new forms and intensities of networking between studios and the nature of creative collaboration at-distance. The chapter argues that while network-working at-distance has particular advantages, it lacks the intimacy of face-to-face contact that is of central importance to creative collaboration.
