The Studio
Nestled in the heart of Daylesford, Victoria, the studio has been tirelessly built as an extension of my heart and soul for the craft. This is not a cookie-cutter recording studio aimed to the masses (not that there is anything wrong with that at all – I’d love one of those too!), rather, this is a project studio with a distinct sonic signature – mine.
“Everything passes, Hiroto,” Dad said. “That feeling in your heart: It’s called mono no aware. It is a sense of the transience of all things in life. The sun, the dandelion, the cicada, the Hammer, and all of us: We are all subject to the equations of James Clerk Maxwell and we are all ephemeral patterns destined to eventually fade, whether in a second or an eon.”
“Mono no aware”, by Ken Liu
While gear / equipment does not a good song make, working with analogue hardware is a hell of a lot of fun, and makes the experience feel more alive. For those that share that love of mine, I’ve included a fairly exhaustive list of what this little slice of heaven contains…
