ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes based on in-depth interviews with a total of 22 musicians. It also analyzes according to two broad themes: The use and evaluation of home studio "per se" in various phases of music creation, production, and dissemination, which is the theme for the first part of the analysis; and the relative merits of the home studio and the prospects of building a "career from home" vis-a-vis professional recording facilities and traditional career patterns in the music industry, which is the theme for the second part of the analysis. The chapter discusses the practices of the musicians through the lens of ANT's concepts of socio-technical "networks" and "assemblages." The accompanying term to assembling, reassembling, has only a polemical meaning in Latour's writings. The chapter also discusses how, to some degree, the term "piracy" has moved from the accusations of the content industries to be taken by Internet activists as a symbol of rebellion against corporate authority.
