Music of Sound

Check out Pugsfly blog for these beautiful studios & many other gorgeous design observations….

Thought you might like to see a few photos of my new studio:

Hah! Actually I’d love it if my new studio looked even a fraction as cool… those photos are from the interior of an apartment building in Shimbashi, Tokyo – more info here from a PingMag article….

My studio is still rather messy/under construction – but I start my next film in it on January 5th so some rapid progress is going to be made during these so called holidays…

Apart from the boring technical problems with the server that this blog lives on, I’m also in the process of packing up & moving my life & studio, for the exact same reason as the last time I moved: other peoples greed!

My last studio was in central city & I had a 3 year lease – when my lease came up for renewal the owners were happy for me to stay, but only if I was prepared to pay double the rent! Being in central city meant that slowly the office & light industrial buildings had been filled with apartments & so I begrudgingly packed up & moved.

So this studio has been in an industrial area & I thought I was safe from developers – I took out a 3+3 lease & settled in, but six years have passed, my lease is up for renewal & guess what? The owners want to double my rent! Now I appreciate we are supposedly in the middle of an economic recession but there are two other buildings in the same street that are empty & have been that way for over six months. So I guess the owners are happy to have no income from their building for a while, or they presumed I would just meet their demands. The hell I will!?!

The up side to all of this is it motivated me to finally escape the renters nightmare! So here is my new home & studio:

Its on the top floor of a 1960s building & I doubt I can do film work from there (neighbours & subwoofers don’t tend to not go together very well) but I will be doing some sound isolation tests as soon as I move… Its such a lovely light filled space – it just feels immediately creative… and it has a deck:

Heres a panoramic photo of the view (click to enlarge)

More photos here

I’ll post a few before/after photos once I’ve moved & installed myself!

Following up on a previous rant about the aesthetics of studio design; from an interview on Native Instruments site heres a couple of photos of Lumos retro-futuristic looking studio in Berlin:

 

methink someones been watching re-runs of 2001…