Simon Zagorski-Thomas is Professor at the London College of Music, University of West London, UK, and is Co-Chairman of the Association for the Study of the Art of Record Production. He worked for 25 years as a composer, sound engineer, and producer and is, at present, conducting research into 21st Century Musical Practice. His books include The Art of Record Production (2012), co-edited with Simon Frith, and The Musicology of Record Production (2014), winner of the 2015 IASPM Book Prize.