Dr Paul Thompson

Nicholls S; Thompson P (2023) Music: Leeds – Supporting a Regionalized Music Sector and Scene. In: Thompson P; Spracklen K; Ross K; Lashua B ed. Popular Music in Leeds Histories, Heritage, People and Places. Intellect (UK), pp. 264-299.

Thompson P; Lashua B (2021) Drum Tracks: Locating the Experiences of Drummers in Recording Studios. In: Brennan M ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit. Cambridge University Press, pp. 126-138.

Thompson P; Nicholls S (2021) Music: Leeds – supporting a regionalised music sector and scene. In: Hepworth-Sawyer R; Paterson J; Toulson R ed. Innovation in Music Future Opportunities. Routledge: Focal Press, pp. 432-444.

Thompson P (2020) Sound on Sound: Considerations for the Use of Sonic Methods in Ethnographic Fieldwork inside the Recording Studio. In: Bull M; Cobussen M ed. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 437-448.

Thompson P; Mosley B (2020) Sound Reflections: The Purpose, Perspectives, and Place of Audio Education. In: Walzer D; Lopez M ed. Audio Education: Theory, Culture, and Practice. Routledge, pp. 191-206.

Thompson P; Mcintyre P (2020) Sound engineering in the recording studio as Creative Practice. In: Zagorski-Thomas S; Isakoff K; Stevance S; Lacasse S ed. The Art of Record Production Vol.2: Creative Practice in the Studio.

Thompson P; Harding P (2019) Collective Creativity –A Service Model of Commercial Pop Music Production at PWL in the 1980s. In: Hepworth-Sawyer R; Hodgson J; Paterson J; Toulson R ed. Innovation in Music: Performance,Production, Technology, and Business.

Thompson P; Harding P (2019) A 'Service' model of Creativity in Commercial Pop Music at P&E Studios in the 1990s. In: Gullö J-O ed. Proceedings of the 12th Art of Record Production Conference: Mono: Stereo: Multi. Stockholm: Royal College of Music (KMH) & Art of Record Production,

McNally K; Seay T; Thompson PA (2019) What the Masters Teach Us: Multitrack Audio Archives and Popular Music Education. In: Moir Z; Powell B; Smith G ed. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education Perspectives and Practices. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 113-126.

Thompson PA; Stevenson A (2017) Missing a Beat: Exploring Experiences, Perceptions and Reflections of Popular Electronic Musicians in UK Higher Education Institutions. In: Smith GD; Rambarran S; Moir Z; Brennan M; Kirkman P ed. The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Music Education. London: Routledge, pp. 203-216.

Thompson PA (2016) Scalability of the Creative System in the Recording Studio. In: McIntyre P; Paton E; Fulton J ed. The Creative System in Action: Understanding Cultural Production and Practice. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 74-86.

Thompson P; McNally K; Seay T; Lefford N; Pras A (In press) What the Masters Teach Us: Multitrack Recordings In Research and Education. In: AES Audio Education Conference 2021, 22 July 2021 - 24 July 2021, Nashville TN (Online).

Thompson P; Seay T; McNally K (2023) Digging in the Tapes: Multitrack Archives as an Emerging Educational Resource. In: Innovation in Music, 16 June 2023 - 18 June 2023, Edinburgh Napier University.

Brackett D; King R; Barg L; Massenburg G; Thompson P; Hermes K (2023) Creative Collaboration in the Recording Studio. In: 154th Audio Engineering Society Conference, 13 May 2023 - 15 May 2023, University of Helskinki, Espoo, Helsinki, Finland.

Thompson P (2022) Changing the Record: Using Archeological Approaches to Study Popular Music History. In: The 2022 IASPM-UK/Ireland Branch Conference, 31 August 2022 - 2 September 2022, University of Liverpool.

Thompson P; McNally K; Seay T (2022) Multiple Takes: Multitrack Audio as a Musical, Cultural, and Historical Resource. In: Innovation in Music, 17 June 2022 - 19 June 2022, Royal College of Music Stockholm.

Thompson P; Miller S; Mckay B (2020) Another Take; Exploring the Sound of Cuban Dance Music Using Experimental Archeology in the Recording Studio. In: London Calling: IASPM UK & Ireland Biennial Conference, 19 May 2020 - 31 July 2020, London and online.

Thompson P; McNally K; Seay T (2019) Take Two: Multitrack Audio as a Musical, Cultural, and Pedagogical Resource. In: 14th Art of Record Production Conference, 17 May 2019 - 19 May 2019, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA.

Thompson PA; Corbett I; Rakhmanova N (2019) Mix It! Are There Best Mixing Practices?. In: Audio Engineering Society, 19 March 2019 - 23 March 2019, Dublin.

Thompson PA; McIntyre P (2018) Creative Practice in the Recording Studio: Engineering Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall (1979). In: Joint IASPMUK&I Biennial, 13th Art of Record Production (ARP), ISMMS, and Dancecult Conference., 3 September 2018 - 5 September 2018, University of Huddersfield.

Thompson P; Harding P (2018) Collective Creativity: A ‘Service’ Model of Contemporary Commercial Pop Music. In: Joint IASPMUK&I Biennial, 13th Art of Record Production (ARP), ISMMS, and Dancecult Conference., 3 September 2018 - 5 September 2018, University of Huddersfield.

Thompson PA; Lefford N; Blier-Carruthers A; Danielson A; Porcello T (2017) Methodologies in Record Production. The 12th Art of Record Production Conference, Mono: Stereo: Multi, The Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden,.

McIntyre P; Thompson P; Scott K (2017) Back to Mono: A Study of the Transition from Mono to Stereo as a Creative System in Action. In: The 12th Art of Record Production Conference, 1 December 2017 - 3 December 2017, The Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden.

Thompson PA; McNally K; Seay T (2017) Another Take: Teaching Music Production Using Multitrack Recordings. In: Art of Record Production, 1 December 2017 - 3 December 2017, Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden.

Thompson PA; Harding P (2017) Collective Creativity: A ‘Service’ Model of Creativity in Commercial Pop Music at PWL in the 1980s. In: Innovation in Music, 6 September 2017 - 8 September 2017, University of Westminster.

Nicholls S; Thompson P; Lashua B; Bell S (2017) Collaboration on the UK Live Music Census in Leeds and extended project. In: Practice/Research: A Symposium, 5 July 2017, Leeds Beckett University.

Thompson PA; McNally K; Seay T (2017) The sound of the Masters: Using Multi-track Recordings in Popular Music Education. In: Music Production Education Conference 2017, 29 June 2017, York St John University.

Thompson PA; Schwabe R (2016) Let the Track Mix itself: Creativity and Intuition inside the Recording Studio. In: The 11th Art of Record Production Conference The Spaces in Between, 2 December 2016 - 4 December 2016, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Thompson PA; Lefford N (2016) Deciding How to Decide: The Record Producer’s Creative Decisions in the Recording Studio. In: The 11th Art of Record Production Conference The Spaces in Between, 2 December 2016 - 4 December 2016, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Thompson PA; Lashua B (2016) Producing, Reproducing and Exposing the Myths of Creativity Inside the Recording Studio. In: IASPM UK & Ireland Conference 2016: Creativity: Practice and Praxis, 8 September 2016 - 10 September 2016, Brighton, UK.

Thompson P; Mosley BJ (2015) Audio Education: Its purpose and place in formal education and the creative industries.

http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=17866

Davis R; Thompson PA; Parker S (2014) Preparing the Music Technology Toolbox: Addressing the Education-Industry Dilemma. In: Researching Music, Education, Technology: Critical Insights, 3 April 2014 - 4 April 2014, International Music Education Research Centre (iMerc); Institute of Education University of London.

Thompson PA; McIntyre P (2014) Engineering: Creativity and Collaboration in the Recording Studio. In: The 9th Art of Record Production Conference, 4 December 2014 - 6 December 2014, University of Oslo, Norway.

Thompson PA; McIntyre P (2013) Rethinking Creativity in Record Production Education: Addressing the field. In: The 8th Art of Record Production Conference - Rewriting The Rules Of Production, 12 July 2013 - 14 July 2013, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.

Thompson PA; Lashua B (2012) Get it on Record: Issues and Strategies for Contemporary Ethnographic Practice in Recording Studios. In: International Conference for Contemporary Ethnography across the Disciplines, 21 November 2012 - 23 November 2012, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Thompson PA (2012) Represent not Reprazent the City: Urban Imagery and Spatial Geography in the Rap Music of Nas’. In: International Association for the Study of Popular Music (UK & Ireland) 2012 conference: 'Imagining Communities Musically: Putting Popular Music in its Place', 5 September 2012 - 7 September 2012, Media City UK, University of Salford.

McIntyre P; Thompson PA (2011) Performing Creativity: Paul McCartney's Practice in the Recording Studio. In: The 7th Art of Record Production Conference - 21st Century Production: Technology, Performance & the Workspace, 2 December 2011 - 4 December 2011, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA.

Mosley BJ; Thompson P (2014) Setting the tone: Considerations for educating the next generation of sound reproduction professionals.

Thompson P; Mosley B; Ward M (2013) Critical listening and acoustics as an essential part of the audio production and sound technology curriculum.

Thompson P (2023) Any sound you can imagine? The Bedroom Producer, creativity and popular music education. Journal of Popular Music Education, 7 (2), pp. 205-218.

https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00114_1

Thompson P; Harding P (2023) Creativity and Education: The ‘Service Model’ of Pop Music Songwriting and Production in Action. IASPM Journal, 3 (1), pp. 157-181.

https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2023)v13i1

Anthony B; Thompson P; Auvinen T (2020) Learning the ‘tracker’ process: A case study into popular music pedagogy. Journal of Popular Music Education, 4 (2), pp. 211-235.

https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00026_1

Lefford N; Thompson PA (2018) Naturalistic Artistic Decision-making and Metacognition in the Music Studio. Cognition, Technology and Work

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10111-018-0497-8

Thompson PA; Lashua BD (2016) Producing Music, Producing Myth? Creativity in Recording Studios. IASPM@Journal, 6 (2), pp. 70-90.

https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871

Thompson PA; Stevenson A (2015) Exploring the experiences, perceptions and reflections of popular electronic musicians at UK higher education institutions. Journal of Music, Technology & Education, 8 (2), pp. 199-217.

https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte.8.2.199_1

Davis R; Thompson PA; Parker S (2014) Preparing the Music Technology Toolbox: Addressing the Education-Industry Dilemma. Journal of Music, Technology & Education

https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte.7.3.313_1

Thompson P; Lashua B (2014) Getting It on Record: Issues and Strategies for Ethnographic Practice in Recording Studios. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 43 (6), pp. 746-769.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0891241614530158

Thompson PA; McIntyre P (2013) Rethinking Creativity in Record Production Education: Addressing the field. Journal on the Art of Record Production

http://arpjournal.com/2603/rethinking-creative-practice-in-record-production-and-studio-recording-education-addressing-the-field/

Thompson PA (2012) An empirical study into the learning practices and enculturation of DJs, turntablists, hip hop and dance music producers. Journal of Music, Technology & Education, 5 (1), pp. 43-58.

https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte.5.1.43_1

Lashua B; Spracklen K; Ross K; Thompson P (2023) Popular Music in Leeds Histories, Heritage, People and Places. Intellect (UK).

McIntyre P; Thompson P (2021) Paul McCartney and His Creative Practice The Beatles and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan.

Thompson P (2019) Creativity in the Recording Studio Alternative Takes. Palgrave Macmillan.