The Sigla Blog

“My favourite space to create music would have to be at home, specifically this tiny room with hardly any space in it to move. Actually, the smaller the room the better the feeling of being creative! Big studios are kind of odd to record in and any experience I’ve had of them has certainly dismantled […]

“I like any space that is void of other people and most furniture. But I like the option to sit, stand, or lay down while playing guitar. Since we are on tour much more than we are stationary, I don’t have much leeway to be specific, but the most I can hope for is […]

From today, I’m delighted to say that the Musical Rooms will appear as an occasional column in The Ticket, in The Irish Times. People have been very supportive of the series since it started on the blog back in November. As I said in a comment yesterday, musicians who read it confess that it’s a […]

“The only place I like to create music is always my house in New York - I’ve never been one of those folks who’s able to pick up a guitar and write music in a moving vehicle. The room itself is compact and small, it’s recently been painted the colour purple, and it’s tucked in […]

“Our favourite space to create music in is Exchequor Studios in the centre of Dublin. It’s owned by Nick Seymour from Crowded House and we’ve been lucky enough to avail of it for much of the last year or so. It’s a single room studio with loads of natural light, synths, surrounding food emporiums, a […]

“I make my music at The Saltlands. It’s a studio that I spent all summer building with a few friends in DUMBO Brooklyn. It’s in the basement of an enormous old factory building and I’ve had a rehearsal space there for the last five years. We got our haz-mats on and put up walls, […]

“My music begins with me alone in my bedroom. It’s a square room in a high-ceilinged Victorian house. I work on a computer at a pine desk, programming and arranging until my fingers freeze (there’s no heating). When I’m not at the desk I lie on the floor, or I perch in […]

“My favorite space USED to be my own apartment bedroom. It was three separate apartment bedrooms, in three separate apartments because they comprise the spaces where I recorded The Throne…. Those spaces have since been replaced by the basement of our drummer’s family home (in Bethesda, Maryland), where we get together to practice and form […]

“My favourite space to create music in is hard to define. It can be one of many spaces, but the most important space is the space that is my own head. If that space is furnished properly then I’d be happy to work on the roof of Clery’s. I get a lot of my ideas […]

“I mostly get the best ideas while walking, traveling by train, or in an elevator. Therefore I always have something to write with with me and I whistle or sing sketches on my mobile phone. I even had situations in a supermarket kneeling in the floor and making very fast sketches of a score for […]

“My favorite musical space is my recording studio, Tiny Telephone. I started it about 10 years ago and it’s been the focus of all my creative output since my first band. It’s about 600 square meters, and it’s filled with tons of old tube gear and tape decks (there are four) and - best of […]

“The place I make music, is in my mom’s house, specifically the basement and the living room. The living room has lots of natural light from all the windows, and my mom has decorated it with a lot of country and rustic feel. It is very warm, inviting and an encouraging place to play/write on […]