Need Studio Time?
Do you need a recording studio? Don’t book ours. Converse is building a brand new state-of-the-art recording studio in the heart of Brooklyn. And, studio time will be free.
In all honesty, this doesn’t surprise us at all. Following other initiatives from the likes of OK Go and others, there seems to be no end to businesses, corporations, and other institutions partnering with artists in a new modern form of patrongage. Apparently the application process for studio time will involve making videos wherein you pledge your allegiance to the iconic shoe.
Is this selling out? I dunno. Actually, we’re inclined to think this is one of the more creative alliances that could be drawn between art and commerce. But maybe we’re biased- between the NoWare partners, we collectively own 7 pairs of ‘Chucks.
Read the whole story at the NY Times…
IT IS ALIVE!
Wow. State of the art circa 1983, we now have a working Yamaha DX7 IIFD. All it took was a few floppy disks, some sys. ex. data dumps, and wha-la: FM synthesis galore.
This keyboard, a later model DX7, has a floppy drive that allows users to store and load additional sounds. After one late night in the studio, we’ve amassed somewhere around 1200 ridiculous sounding patches. Its really fun and totally inspiring. We can’t wait to put sounds like “FatAnalogBass”, “WhipWhap”, and “Carlos” on a record. Its going to be really awesome. Like 1983.
We just bought some floppy disks…
I know, right? Why? Well, we’re trying to fix some stuff. And you have no idea how hard it is to find these things now…
Production
We’ve been making records for years.
Some of our clients are Grammy winners, Nominees, Gold and Platinum award recipients, and local singer-songwriters who likely just delivered your pizza.
This is what we love to do and we’ve spent our collective lives doing it. If you happen to like synthesizers from the 1980s, guitars, and obscure vintage noise makers, maybe we should work together. Then again, if you think Optigans have more to do with extreme cage fighting than music, maybe we shouldn’t.
You have managed to find NoWare. We are a music based creative house located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
