Amazing footage of the old Columbia 30th St. studios.

??????? · Post by **???????** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 10:59 am

Glenn Gould playing Bach.

It's in a few parts. Parts 4-6 are of the studio footage. I linked part 4 below.

What an amazing room, amazing performer.

Looks like three M49 (M50s?). Too bad this room was torn down.

I particularly like the exchange where the engineer asks Gould if he's superstitious. Then Gould says "Yeah" and the engineer says "Take fourteen!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEtmifxr ... PL&index=9

MoreSpaceEcho · Post by **MoreSpaceEcho** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:14 pm

THANK YOU.

"whaddya mean 'not bad'????"

ChrisNW · Post by **ChrisNW** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:21 pm

Very cool. So interesting to see a fairly familiar recording process despite this being from another world of music and technology. Thanks for sharing!

GussyLoveridge · Post by **GussyLoveridge** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:28 pm

So this was 1959-60 somewhere in there?

Anybody know what the desk is we see around 9:50 or so?

Gregg Juke · Post by **Gregg Juke** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:19 pm

Very cool; thanks for posting!

That's a lot of coffee, creamer, and cigarettes to have floating around all of that gear.

I wish they could learn from this process how to isolate Keith Jarret's hummy-mummy vocables...

GJ

drumsound · Post by **drumsound** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:03 pm

so very cool.

I'm Painting Again · Post by **I'm Painting Again** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:09 pm

probably a custom Columbia console built by Columbia Research & Development..that one probably graced so many classic records..

blungo2 · Post by **blungo2** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:27 pm

Wow! Thanks for posting that.

b3groover · Post by **b3groover** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:57 pm

A friend and local studio owner has some of those big mic boom stands from that studio and even one of the M49s. Awesome stuff.

EasyGo · Post by **EasyGo** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 2:18 pm

Look out for a rerun of the PBS American Masters program 'Genius Within: The Inner Life Of Glenn Gould.' Very interesting, and good footage of Glenn at the board getting OVERLY involved in the production process.

chuckfurok · Post by **chuckfurok** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:49 am

That is super awesome!

apropos of nothing · Post by **apropos of nothing** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 2:16 pm

Folks may also be interested in this...
http://www.zenph.com/the-music/artists/ ... tions.html

A local company, Zenph, has figured out how to extract high-resolution MIDI data from an audio recording, and re-engineered his Goldberg Variations performance.

g.a.harry · Post by **g.a.harry** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:37 pm

I actually have a copy of the documentary that clip came from. Pretty neat. He was an interesting dude.

tonewoods · Post by **tonewoods** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:31 am

wonderfriend wrote:He was an interesting dude.

I love understatement.....

percussion boy · Post by **percussion boy** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:29 am

Makes you wonder-- do great dead studios leave ghosts, lingering around the old neighborhood?

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Amazing footage of the old Columbia 30th St. studios.

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