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Technology may surround a human performance. It need not replace one. The Human Band is a working book for people who want to write, record and release music with real musicians — including a band that is distributed across rooms, cities and time zones.
It walks from the first piece of music through sessions, files, rights, loudness, hashes, identifiers and the day the record leaves the house. Provenance is treated as publishing hygiene applied to sound: who played, who decided, what must be kept.
Written for intelligent readers who are musically untrained and still intend to make a record. No conservatoire mythology. No claim that tools are the band. Hallway Light is a labelled teaching copy, not a released master. Dated rights and collector notes are UK sources; check the equivalent body where you actually file.