Sinéad Gleeson’s blog
“Right now, my favourite place to make music is this large closet in my basement that I’ve turned into a studio. It’s big enough for three people to fit into, with a large makeshift table made out of a broken door and some milk crates. It gets a nice sound, not much room sound, just […]
Drew Daniel: My favourite space is somewhere in the future, with no phone, and a calendar with nothing written on it.
M.C. Schmidt: I am a practicalist, so I would have to speak about several places I have been. The production of our music is burdened with stuff: computers, microphones, mixing boards, synthesizers. I love this […]
“We have a city-based practice room we use a couple of times a week but it’s a pretty soulless room in the attic of an office block. We use it more for pure rehearsal, but our favourite place to actually break out new ideas and mess about in search of inspiration is a tiny little […]
“I’ve always liked small cosy spaces. When I was a kid every nook and cranny in the house was some kind of imagined cockpit or secret hideout of one sort or another. My mind would travel great distances without having a lot of stuff around me. It’s not that different now when it comes to […]
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“I used to record and compose in my old apartment in Kortedala, which is a suburb outside Göteborg in Sweden. I named the place Kortedala Beauty Center after a hair salon I used to go to where Shirin, who I also sing about, used to work. When they closed down the […]
“My favourite place to create music is home at home - I live alone so anywhere in the house is fine. I have guitars placed around the house, at the end of my bed, in the sitting room and my little home studio - it’s nice to pick up the guitar at any point and […]
“My favorite place to make music is my living room. The Xiu Xiu studio, called “thee fallings out brose studio”, has been there, interrupting my life since I moved into my current apartment in 2005. It is both hyper productive and socially stunting to be able to look at it from my bedroom’s open door.
There […]
“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 […]