….the concept…
I always wanted the studio to be an experiment. whether playing on form or function, I never felt fully at home in a traditional studio environment, so back in 2010, I installed a studio in an old house in the woods of Woodstock, and for the next 11 years, it served as my home base. part studio, part lodge, we made dozens upon dozens of brilliant records there, until the post-Covid real estate bonanza forced an early move…
…Isokon v2…
after woodstock, and amid the difficulty of finding a new Isokon in the same mold, I stumbled upon an opportunity that I couldn’t ignore… I installed the Isokon into a former IBM campus, in the former boardroom. a large and unencumbered space in its own private wing of a massive building, reminiscent of 1990’s Berlin, when artists and idiosyncratic thinkers began taking over and reinventing old industrial spaces, I seized on the spirit of that inspiration, and took on the challenge of creating an inner sanctum in the heart of this post-industrial wasteland.
…Isokon v3…
Having run its course at the former IBM, I moved the studio in July 2022, to a former Ford Motor assembly plant/dealership in Midtown Kingston. Now in a spacious industrial loft, the live room is open and airy, and the space feels ‘found’ in the best way possible. Food is plenty in the neighborhood, and surrounding train tracks, art galleries, and industrial architecture calls back to another time, and another place.
seizing a moment in time is the entire root of my view of making records. and that provides some insight into why new chapters excite me.
...the origin of the name...
in the 1940’s, while germany was in the throes of a madman, a group of avantgarde architects took refuge in london, and took it upon themselves to design the first apartment building dedicated to communal living amongst the avantgarde....... this building was called The Isokon Building. the name came from the words ‘isometric construction’.
our name is in homage to that spirit, that concept.