ABSTRACT
The analysis of the functions and outcomes of the mediation process within music production, within a mixed cultural context, provides further insight into the required negotiations and methodologies employed in the recording studio between artist and producer. This chapter outlines some of those processes through an auto-ethnographic case study of an album recording. This may help future recording artists and their producers to understand the cultural motivations and circumstances that inform the expectations of both parties within the production process, which can then be applied positively to enhance the end product. These recordings acted as a notepad for the musical concepts and structures that the authors and his friends could draw upon later when embarking on recording the album. The initial plan was to record basic backing tracks within the studio and then take the tracks away to their own studios where parts could be added on to the tracks.
