Photo Gallery: Studio Envy
January 2013
Madlib, the 'human record crate', at home in Los Angeles, July
2009.
Photographed by Jeremy & Claire Weiss for an article in
The Wire 306 by Lisa
Blanning.
"I'm not playing the same thing every bloody night." Ashley
Wales and John Coxon in London, February 2006.
Photographed by Dominik Gigler for an article on Spring Heel Jack
in The Wire 266 by Keith
Moliné.
Computer music pioneer and programmer Laurie Spiegel in New
York, July 2012.
Photographed by Chris Buck for an article in The Wire 344 by Frances
Morgan.
"Computers used to be viewed as dangerous, powerful,
dehumanising." Spiegel in her loft studio in New York.
Photographed by Chris Buck for an article in The Wire 344 by Frances
Morgan.
"I sing in a language which I invented myself, for my own
music." Ghédalia Tazartès at home in Paris, July 2008.
Photographed by Sébastien Agnetti for an article in The Wire 295 by Nick Cain.
Uwe Schmidt aka Atom™ aka Señor Coconut at home in Santiago de
Chile, March 2012.
Photographed by Cristobal Palma for an article in The Wire 339 by Dan Barrow.
Objet sonore: Electronic music theorist, composer of 'concrete
melodramas' Michel Chion in his studio in Paris, June 2008.
Photographed by Philippe Lebruman for an article in The Wire 294 by Dan
Warburton.
Ring the bell: musique concrète pioneer Pierre Henry's front
door in Paris, March 2009.
Photographed by Philippe Lebruman for an article in The Wire 305 by Philip
Clark.
Pierre Henry working at home in Paris, March 2009.
Photographed by Philippe Lebruman for an article in The Wire 305 by Philip
Clark.
JG Thirlwell aka Foetus at home in his Brooklyn loft, April
2005.
Photographed by Daniëlle van Ark for an article in The Wire 255 by Alan Licht.
Root system: JG Thirlwell's recording studio.
Photographed by Daniëlle van Ark for The Wire 255.
Sasu Ripatti aka Vladislav Delay in his Berlin studio, December
2007.
Photographed by Kai von Rabenau for an article in The Wire 288 by Philip
Sherburne.
Vladislav Delay's Berlin studio, December 2007.
Photographed by Kai von Rabenau for The Wire 288.
Composer, producer and electronic engineer Rafael Toral in his
studio, Lisbon, August 2006.
Photographed by Pedro Alfacinha for an article in The Wire 272 by Dan
Warburton.
Toral in his studio, Lisbon, August 2006.
Photographed by Pedro Alfacinha for The Wire 272.
"I love distortion. When you push things to their breaking point
and it starts taking new shapes and colours, it is endlessly
fascinating..." Lasse Marhaug at home in Oslo, August 2006.
Photographed by Haakon Harriss for an article in The Wire 273 by Anne Hilde
Neset.
Shabby chic: Le Drapeau Noir jamming at the Portland Works,
Sheffield, October 2009.
Photographed by Tara Darby for an article on "The now sound of
Sheffield" in The Wire
310 by David Keenan.
Julian Cope and mellotron at home in Yatesbury, Wiltshire,
September 2009.
Photographed by Jake Walters for an article in The Wire 309 by Rob Young.
Terry Riley in his home studio in the Sri Moonshine Ranch near
San Francisco, February 2007.
Photographed by Winni Wintermeyer for an article in The Wire 278 by Richard
Henderson.
Free conservatory: Bill Dixon at home in Vermont, April 2008.
Photographed by Mark Mahaney for an article in The Wire 293 by Phil
Freeman.
Musicians in their studios, including Madlib's vinyl-cluttered home, Laurie Spiegel's NYC loft, Pierre Henry in Paris, Vladislav Delay's modernist shrine and more, culled from the pages of The Wire.