Gareth Dylan Smith

Real-Time, Remote, Interactive Recording Sessions: Music Production Without Boundaries

In: Producing Music Zack Moir, Paul Ferguson, and Gareth Dylan Smith Abstract: Inhabitants of the 21st century live and work in a world in which many aspects of daily interactions with other humans are no longer hampered by physical distance. Indeed, scholars and practitioners in fields such as music and communications are finding that there …

Popular Music, Policy, and Education

Gareth Dylan Smith and Zack Moir In: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy Abstract: This chapter explores links between cultural, economic and education policy and music education, focusing mostly on the contexts of the United Kingdom and the United States. Taking a broad view of what constitutes policy, the authors discuss how ideology, tradition …

Low-latency Networked Music Collaborations: Does “Good Enough” Do Enough Good?

Abstract Gareth Dylan Smith, Zack Moir, Paul Ferguson, Gill Davies Link to article LoLa is a cutting-edge technology that enables low latency, real-time collaborations across vast distances using high-bandwidth, low-jitter networks. It has the capacity to transform how music is made and experienced. It has been utilized on a relatively small scale to date, primarily …

Build A Fort

‘Ignorant Populists’ is the debut EP from transatlantic saxophone and drums duo Build A Fort. The band is Zack Moir (Edinburgh) on saxophone and Gareth Dylan Smith (New York) on drums and together they create powerful, energetic, groove-based music that is an experimental blend of jazz, rock, and electronica. ‘Ignorant Populists’ will be released for …