Dr. Jay Hodgson

About

Dr. Jay Hodgson is on faculty at Western University, where he primarily teaches courses on songwriting and project paradigm record production. In the last few years, his mixes and masters have twice been nominated for Juno Awards, topped Beatport’s global EDM charts, and he has scored films recognized by the likes of Rolling Stone Magazine, and which screened at the United Nations General Assembly. He was awarded a Governor General’s academic medal in 2006, primarily in recognition of his research on audio recording; and his second book, Understanding Records (2010), was recently acquired by the Reading Room of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has other books published, and forthcoming, from Oxford University Press, Bloomsbury, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Focal Press and Routledge.

Publications

Books

• 2020 Perspectives on Music Production: Mastering In Music. New York: Routledge-Taylor & Francis.
• 2020 Perspectives on Music Production: Gender In Music Production. New York: Routledge-Taylor & Francis.
• 2019 Understanding Records: A Field Guide To Recording Practice — second edition. New York/London: Bloomsbury.
• 2019 Perspectives on Music Production: Producing Music. New York: Routledge-Taylor & Francis.
• 2018 Audio Mastering: The Artists, with Russ Hepworth-Sawyer. Boston: Focal Press.
• 2018 Innovation in Music: Performance, Production, Technology & Business. New York: Routledge-Taylor & Francis.
• 2017 Perspectives on Music Production: Mixing Music. New York: Routledge-Taylor & Francis.
• 2016 Innovation in Music 2.0, with Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, Justin Paterson, Rob Toulson. London: KES International
• 2015 Transactions on Innovation in Music, with Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, Justin Paterson, Rob Toulson. London: KES International
• 2014 Representing Sound: Notes on the Ontology of Recorded Musical Communications. Waterloo: Wilfried Laurier University Digital Press.
  • 2010 Understanding Records: A Field Guide To Recording Practice. New York/London: Continuum.
• 2009 Rock: A Canadian Perspective, with Larry Starr & Christopher Waterman. Toronto: Oxford University Press.

Chapters

• 2016 “Mix As Auditory Response” in Perspectives on Music Production: Mixing. New York: Routledge-Taylor & Francis.
• 2016 “Mixing for Markets,” with Alex Chuck Krotz, in Perspectives on Music Production: Mixing Music. New York: Routledge-Taylor & Francis. Co-author, sharing equal research and writing duties.
• 2016 “The Role of the Audio Editing Engineer In/And Modern Mixing,” with Perspectives on Music Production: Mixing Music. New York: Routledge-Taylor & Francis. Co-author, sharing equal research and writing duties.
• 2016 “Mixing in/And EDM,” with Andy Devine, in Perspectives on Music Production: Mixing Music. New York: Routledge-Taylor & Francis. Co-author, sharing equal research and writing duties.

Conference Presentations

• 2015 Preproduction &/As Musical Practice: Interviews with George Martin & Bob Ezrin, with Russ Hepworth-Sawyer. - International Meeting of Innovation in Music Association. Cambridge University at Anglia Ruskin. England.
• 2012 The Persistence of Mono: Mono Compatibility - Living Stereo: International Conference on Stereo Sound. Carleton, University. Canada.
• 2010 Lateral Dynamics Processing in Experimental Hip Hop - International Meeting of the Association for the Study of Record Production. Leeds University. England.
• 2008 Terry Riley’s Time-Lag Accumulator in Brian Eno’s Ambient Records - International Meeting of the Association for the Study of Record Production. Lowell University. USA.

Lectures: Invited

• 2018 Mad Max & the Modern Music Market: Thriving in the Ruins of the Record Industry. - Western University, Senior Alumni
• 2017 A Field Guide to Hit Songs: A Formula for Writing #1 Pop Songs. - Brescia College: Thinking Hard.
• 2016 Emerging creative & commercial entrepreneurships: thriving in the ruins of the record industry. Labour Market for Music Workers in the New Millennium: A Joint Course offered by Western University & the Norwegian Academy of Music.
• 2014 Creativity in the Modern Record Industry. - CulturePlex: Cultural Complexity & Digital Humanities. Western University, Ivey Business School Canada. London, Canada
• 2013 The Modern Music Industry. - Entertainment & Sports Law Assoc. of Western University. Western University. Canada
• 2013 Representing Sound: Thoughts About Record Making Under Digital Paradigms - Keynote for the Western University Graduate Students of Music Annual Colloquium. Western University. Canada
• 2011 Vs. Sound Reproduction: Understanding Acoustic Ecology - McLuhan Centenary hosted by Eric McLuhan. University of Toronto. Canada.
• 2009 Dynamics Processing on Rock & Electronica Records - Guest Lecture for University of Toronto Graduate Students’ Association. University of Toronto. Canada.
• 2007 Project Paradigm Beat Construction: Musica Practica 2.0 American Musicological Society, New York-St. Lawrence Chapter. Western University. Canada.

Auditory Display (“Audification”) Installations: Invited

• 2015 Raving For Introverts: An Audio-Haptic Installation Music Research Day, Don Wright Faculty of Music. Western University. London, Canada
• 2014 Chromacoustics/Lumacoustics: Audifying Movement Though A Color & Light Field in Real Time. Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Big Data Days Conference. Western University. London, Canada
• 2014 From The Void: An Installation for Metro4 & The Trews. Commercial concert at the John Labbat Centre Arena. London, Canada