Wonderful post! Thank you for that. I´ve been working with / investigating in sound for the last 40 years (about). I´ve met a lot of real good musicians and producers, I even cooperated with a lot of them, but only seldomly I met people thinking deeper, wanting to look behind the curtains of "popular" music or those of the music business. And the activisats of so called "serious" music were mainly not interested in questions you discus in your article. Only with Jazz musicians it was regularly more easy to find a good conversation about those things. I am going to follow you hoping for more of your posts. Have a great time!
Rolf