Studio One at Abbey Highway Studios has all the time been a house of boundary-pushing artwork. Earlier this month, the world’s largest purpose-built recording studio introduced collectively dance and music in a first-of-its variety occasion, which is explored within the quick documentary above, shared solely with Wallpaper*.
The efficiency featured the choreography of Royal Ballet alum Joseph Toonga to the scores of Spider-Man composer Daniel Pemberton, remixed and reshaped by Abbey Highway’s first Artist In Residence, Jordan Rakei. This was the primary time since Kate Bush filmed a music video right here in 1981 that Studio One has hosted a dance efficiency, bringing dynamism to the area, which is hallowed floor within the music world.
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The studio, the jewel within the crown of Abbey Highway, is among the finest recording studios on this planet, large enough at 4,844 sq ft to host a 100-piece orchestra and a 100-piece choir. This has made it the popular recording spot for artists together with Noel Gallagher, Little Simz, Dua Lipa, Harry Types, Shygirl, Rudimental, Mabel and Metronomy.
Studio One can also be one of many oldest studios, with classical greats akin to Elgar, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Casals, Callas and du Pré having recorded right here. Within the subsequent many years, Shirley Bassey recorded Goldfinger and The Beatles carried out All You Want Is Love for the world’s first world satellite tv for pc broadcast in Studio One.
Not too long ago, the studio has hosted artists from Little Simz and Harry Types to U2, Celeste and Sam Smith. A number of the finest movie scores of the final 45 years have been recorded right here, together with these of the Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Marvel movies, Barbie, The Form of Water, Tár, Raiders of The Misplaced Ark, Skyfall, Gravity, Gladiator II and Depraved.
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Toonga has created dance productions for The Royal Ballet College, English Nationwide Ballet College and Boston Conservatoire of Dance. His signature model, which challenges conventions generally utilized in hip hop dance, met the music of Pemberton, who creates scores for movie, tv and video video games. The composer labored with Rakei, the New Zealand-Australian musician, singer, songwriter and document producer of six studio albums, who has collaborated with artists akin to FKJ, Tom Misch and Disclosure, to convey one thing completely distinctive to Studio One.
This collision of worlds celebrated creativity in all its kinds in an area that has, fittingly, facilitated among the most vital musical moments of the final half-century. It is an vital second in Abbey Highway’s persevering with evolution.
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