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Public Hi-Fi Recording Facility
Austin, Texas - 1,876 square feet
Site Description
Conceived as a detached studio space adjacent
to the Owner’s residence in Tarrytown, Austin, Texas,
impervious coverage restrictions, height limitations, compatibility
standards and building line setbacks were all limiting factors
in the design of the Recording Studio for a nationally acclaimed
band. Acoustic privacy was elemental and imperative. The architecture
was dictated by the Owner’s program requirements to
blend into the residential character of the 1940’s neighborhood.
Problem
Very high levels
of acoustic isolation were needed to both isolate the studio
from neighborhood noise, as well as, isolate the neighborhood
from the activity of live recording. Essentially, a building
was built within a building using double 2” x 6”
wood frame wall construction. Another layer of 10” adobe
was used for the interior finish-out in the Live Room for
ascetic and sound quality concerns. The heating, air conditioning
and ventilation design was particularly demanding in that
the acoustic consultant demanded that the operating system
be completely silent.
Solution
The 2 story Live Room was designed with
a drum and vocal booth to add versatility. Structural wood
and steel trusses, high tech lighting, white oak floors and
adobe walls were intended to give the working musicians a
comfortable place in which to live while working. A Mixing
Room and Equipment Room are acoustically perfect and enable
the sound engineer to listen to and mix the various recordings.
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Public Hi-Fi Recording Facility
Spoon Founders: Britt Daniel [L] and Jim Eno [R]
Jim Eno owns Public
Hi-Fi Recording Facility,
"The
songs always evolve in the studio," Daniels tells me.
"I'll write them, demo them a bit, bring them to the
guys and they'll change a lot, and then four track them
some more and watch the new ideas come into play. And then
we go record them in the studio and even more ideas come
in, so they're always evolving and changing."
--From an interview by Alex Steininger.
Spoon
originated in 1996 in Austin, TX, with Britt Daniel (vocals/guitar)
and Jim Eno (drums) and a rotating roster of supporting players.
Their hybrid of indie and punk was born with their debut album,
Telephono. They released their debut album on Matador Records.
Their hits are many including the likes of 'Sister Jack',
'I Turn My
Camera On' and 'The Way We Get By'. They have become one
of indie-rock's premier groups. The band records at Public
Hi-Fi Recording Facility.
see public hi-fi recording facility photo gallery [+]
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We was walking through
the park / Trying to get home before too dark / Who
was it that we saw that night / Was it you?
Someone doing something not right
/ Shocked to see us interrupting their delight / Who
was it that we saw that night / Was it you?
Tucked away inside of the wood
Tucked away inside and up to no good / Who was it that
we saw that night / Was it you?
And we was cutting through the
park / Trying to get home before too dark / Who was
it that we saw that night / Was it you?
Spoon
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"Like
no less than Wilco, Spoon has yet to release a mediocre
album. On the contrary, with every new series of sneaks,
the beloved Austin indie institution overlays yet another
evolutionary transparency onto its endlessly compelling
musical matrix."
Raoul Hernandez
"Texas Platters"
The
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'I
Turn My Camera On'
[MP3 format]
"i turn my
camera on i cut my fingers on the way the way i'm slippin
away / i turn my feelings off y' made me untouchable
for life and you wasn't polite it hit ..."
Band Website: spoontheband.com
Band Members:
Britt Daniel, Jim Eno, EricHarvey, Josh Zarbo
Record Label Merge (N.
America), Matador (elsewhere)
Type of Label Indie
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