ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on one particular sector of the creative economy the recording sector of the music industry. The recording sector is an appropriate one to focus on when considering the working lives of creative workers, given the freelance and flexible, yet increasingly precarious, nature of work in the sector. The chapter also focuses on thebuilds on the research, is on the way in which new technologies including laptop Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs), mobile phones, stem-mixing, and networking technologies such as File Transfer Protocols (FTP) are changing the spatial and temporal nature of recording work, and the subjective experiences of these changes amongst recording engineers. It demonstrates how developments in digital recording technologies in particular recording software running on laptop computers are enabling increased forms of flexibility in terms of work locations and times, yet at the same time are resulting in the increased overflowing of work into the home environment and the heightening of a culture of long and unsociable working hours.
