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Tour and Presentation
The Realization of a Classic Studio in the Modern Era
Martin Pilchner and
Joe Dunphy
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Tuesday, 22 May
2012
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7:00 PM
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Revolution
Recording
36
Laing Street, Toronto, ON
M4L 2N2
One block east of the corner of Leslie Street
and Eastern Ave. See below for parking suggestions. Pre-meeting dinner, 5:00 pm at the Ceili Cottage,
1301 Queen Street East, Toronto (just East of Leslie Street)
This month’s meeting will NOT be available live on-line, but will be available as a podcast in the archives.
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Presentation
Revolution Recording is one of Toronto’s newest
premiere recording facilities. Partners
Joao Carvalho, Joe Dunphy, John MacDonald and Kim Cooke operate the studio
along with EMI Publishing stalwart Tanya Coghlan as studio manager.
Located on Laing St. in Toronto’s downtown east end
just south of the house where Alexander Muir wrote The Maple Leaf Forever, the 8,000 square foot, three room facility
has been built to the highest sonic and aesthetic standards. The room was
designed by Martin Pilchner who has been nominated for the 2012 TEC Award for
'Studio Designer of the Year' for his efforts.
Among the features the main studio offers is a large
65’ x 40’ recording space with side walls of solid cherry, numerically
optimized to provide sound diffusion yielding a well-mixed live sound to the
room. Three studios share a well maintained equipment and microphone collection.
Revolution has already hosted the recording of new
albums by Sarah Slean and Great Lake Swimmers among others. The Neve room, with
its 2,000 square foot recording floor, has become a go to destination for
orchestral sessions.
“The Evolution of Revolution”
The Idea
From
the outset it was collectively decided that the departure point for the
design of Revolution Recording would be to capture and recreate the
spirit of the classic music recording studios. Time was spent
examining many of the legendary spaces, endeavoring to distill their
salient features. The task then fell to reinterpreting those
qualities in a clear and readable way. It was important, that
while embracing the spirit, each element was rational from an acoustic
sense, and meaningful in its phenomenology. Scale, proportion,
materiality, composition, lighting, spatial relationships and
functionality all played an important role in design decisions. The end
result is a space that honors the tradition of its fore bearers, but in
its clarity, celebrates it in a modern sense.
The Realization
We
will be taken on the journey of design, construction and realization of
Revolution Recording Studios. With the use of construction photos
and diagrams the many project challenges will be revisited and
solutions presented as to how they were overcome.
Martin Pilchner, Pilchner-Shoustal International
Martin Pilchner, Pilchner Schoustal International Inc
Martin
is a principal partner of Pilchner Schoustal International Inc., a
company which provides turnkey design and engineering of
recording/broadcast facilities and critical listening environments.
Since
1986 Pilchner Schoustal has been responsible for over 500 facilities
world-wide. Past projects include a ground-up music facility in
Kentucky, Post production facilities for Director M. Night Shyamalan in
Pennsylvania, and the largest film post facility to be built in India
in the last 25 years for Yash Raj films in Bombay (Mumbai). Pilchner
Schoustal received a double TEC award nomination for architecture and
acoustics for their design of Angel Mountain Productions in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, which is a 20,000 square foot ground up music and film
post facility.
Pilchner Schoustal also developed Acoustic-X
software for small room acoustic optimization. This software is still
in use world-wide by many leading room designers and
universities. Martin has written many technical papers on the
subject of acoustics and studio design and has co-authored work
presented at the AES16th International Conference on Spatial Sound
Reproduction.
Martin’s original education was in electronics,
where he worked as a engineer for Saskatchewan Telecommunications
before leaving to study recording engineering and eventually
architecture. He has been a post secondary instructor for such topics
as computer science, signal processing, digital audio, acoustics and
studio design since 1986, and is currently the associate director of
the Producing Engineering program at Harris Institute for the Arts.
http://www.harrisinstitute.com/site/profile.php?id=53
http://www.facebook.com/martin.pilchner
Joe Dunphy, Co-Partner, Revolution Recording Studios
 Joe
Dunphy is a Juno Award winning producer and engineer who has been
working in music, film, television and live sound for over twenty
years. He lives in Toronto, and has a passion for analog audio, and
specializes in building, refurbishing and customizing recording
equipment. These interests have led him to share in the building of
Revolution Recording, an exceptional studio with unmatched equipment.
He is an owner and partner there, teaches workshops at Niagara College
and has a nice wife and three grown daughters. http://youtu.be/jCq-jmor5YI
http://youtu.be/AwosfVmlHRk
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/07/11/dave-bidini-for-those-about-to-rock/
PARKING SUGGESTIONS
“There
are a couple of options, street parking is generally ok, but there will
be rush hour restrictions (likely until 6PM). Parking on Queen
during the day involves a fee, not sure about the evening. Leslie
is always free, not sure about Laing.
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