A studio album is a collection of studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist. A recording studio is a facility for sound recording. ... A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ...

It usually does not contain live recordings and/or remixes, and if it does, those tracks do not make up a majority of the album and are often called "bonus tracks". Due to their heavily prepared nature, they can contain a variety of flourishes and production techniques, including segues, sound effects, found sound, and orchestral contributions. A remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version. ... An album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. ... In terms of recorded music, a bonus track is a piece of music which has been included on specific releases or reissues of an album. ... In music, segue is a direction to the performer. ... Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of movies, video games, music, or other media. ... Found art, or more commonly and less confusingly, Found Object (French: objet trouvé) is a term used to describe art created from common objects not normally considered to be artistic (also assemblage). ... Orchestra at City Hall (Edmonton). ...

In the music industry, studio albums are usually contrasted with compilations and live albums. Studio albums are generally considered to be albums proper, containing material that is, in the majority, previously unreleased and original. They tend to be the highest-selling albums - in the United Kingdom, for example, eighteen of the twenty-four albums that have sold over 2.5 million copies are studio albums. A compilation album is an album (music or spoken-word) featuring tracks from one or multiple recording artists, often culled from a variety of sources (such as studio albums, live albums, singles, demos and outtakes. ... // Many successful recording artists release at least one live album at some point during their career. ...

In classical music, studio albums differ from live recordings in that they are often the result of multiple edits. Orchestral works in particular can be the result of several takes of the same piece. This practice is well established, and in older, analog recordings, edits are often very noticeable when transferred onto digital media. This article is about Western art music from 1000 AD to the 2000s . ... // Many successful recording artists release at least one live album at some point during their career. ... In Music, Audio editing is the process of taking recorded sound and changing it directly on the recording medium. ... This article needs cleanup. ... An analog or analogue signal is any time continuous signal where some time varying feature of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity. ... In digital recording, the analog signal of a motion-picture/sound is converted into a stream of discrete numbers, representing the changes in air pressure (chroma and luminace values in case of video) through time; thus making an abstract template for the original sound. ...

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