I AM IN CLONMEL while reviewing plans for new academic spaces on campus. I talked with Mike Kiely about how we should mark out the function of a recording studio.
I think proper studios are discursive space, perhaps like the outdoor studio I use. Studios are places to discuss, debate, and challenge. As visual artist Mick Wilson explains it, "the studio is a highly socialised space. As well as a space that is contested in terms of its value, meaning and role, it can also be an arena in which the contests of opinions are acted out." The Clonmel multimedia production room has evolved into this function already, much to the chagrin of some facilities managers.
[Bernie Goldbach teaches creative multimedia in Tipperary Institute.]
