Comments on: Studio Aesthetics III

By: Enos

Enos — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:51:20 +0000

I do most of my work in a very clean and isolated studio I have access to. It looks and feels very professional but I am hoping to soon set up a small basic setup at home so I can most of the sound editing from there! With windows and daylight and in such a nice environment as one’s home!

My girlfriend does jewellery and painting and our studio will be slightly combined so will look crazy…with a protools editing suite, painting and brushes and tubes, jewellery workbench, torches, drills, hammers…looking forward to that…she works elsewhere so I won’t have the hammers banging all day though… :p

By: Michael Maroussas

Michael Maroussas — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:54:38 +0000

theunhappyhipsters posts crack me up!

By: Jeff Pitts

Jeff Pitts — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:46:44 +0000

hahaha good point! As I’m still in the dreaming stage I have time to account for natural light in my design

By: tim

tim — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:42:51 +0000

Funnily enough I know two sound editors (hi Ray & Chris!) who pursued Walter Murchs idea by commissioning a desk that has a motor built into it, so it can be raised. So they have the best of both worlds ie can work in normal sitting position or work standing up! I think the latter is definitely better for making music. If anyone is interested I could get the details from them about it? It was built locally…

By: tim

tim — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:36:14 +0000

love those quadratic diffusors!
i have my reservations about living 70% of my waking life in a windowless air conditioned room though

By: Jeff Pitts

Jeff Pitts — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:42:44 +0000

Tim (and all),

I’m sure you have seen this room but it is my absolute favorite!

http://amsterdammastering.com/

He also has a build photo set on his site. The attention to detail and quality of workmanship is amazing. I envision myself working in a space similar to this in the future.

By: Snygga studios

Snygga studios — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:24:12 +0000

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By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:21:45 +0000

Slightly off-topic, but I find the ergonomics of a studio interesting too. How are you when you work? How’s your posture?

I knew a guy who had a huge lazy boy chair that went all the way back. He’d fixed a keyboard to one arm, and a mouse pad to the other. His computer screen was hanging from the ceiling above him, so he basically worked lying down. It was kind of funny to watch him.

On the other hand, I’ve read that Walter Murch edits standing up, which sounds like a much more healthy approach.

Great post Tim. Love the Black Ark… how does he find anything?

cheers, Dan.

By: Felix

Felix — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:10:27 +0000

I love this post. I think the space around us totally has an effect on what we create. I live in a really, really cluttered and tiny bedsit and there is always stuff over and on top of and around whatever I am trying to do. At a glance right now I can see a knitting project I’m working on, a huge heap of open safety pins that need putting away from same knitting project, a pile of post, my phone, pens, several balls of yarn that are waiting to be wound into skeins, my open diary where I have been scheduling recording times, Pauline Oliveros’s Deep Listening book which I was reading yesterday and the pile of Framework 250 CDs that I am making my way through… out of this ongoing and constant mess emerge podcasts, art projects, drawings, ideas… this space is my studio, which is why everything I record at home has the subtle drone of traffic outside my windows on it.

Minimalism isn’t nearly as exciting.

Have you read George Perec’s essay ‘concerning the objects on my desk?’

I found it an amazing exploration of how objects and the creative workspace come together in stuff and things and clutter.

By: Michal Fojcik

Michal Fojcik — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:53:34 +0000

And here are Hans Zimmer’s studio HDR photos:
http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2010/01/29/the-secret-lair-of-hans-zimmer-from-where-he-inspires-the-world/