ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an interview with Georgina Born, an eminent scholar who has played an instrumental role in the study of cultural production and offered formative studies of studio settings. She said that her work on Institute de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) resonates with the premise of studio studies. The studios inside IRCAM were in fact engaged in the production of software and hardware as much as the making of music. Georgina Born had a version of her own mediation theory from the early 1990s. She explored in her PhD, design studios can be understood as centres of synthesis that exist in relation to other productive sites and centres of expertise. She extended Gell's work to think about music's social and temporal mediations. Her work on digital art music also brings home just how radically significant time is in the economy of the music studio. The production processes she studied at the BBC were distributed across many sites.
