Brion requested renting a wing of the Paramour rather than recording at a conventional studio.
But by then the conventional studio album will have become almost extinct.
WQXR is a buzzing hive of activity, much of it spreading well past a conventional studio-and-airwaves model.
Because of Mr. Dangin's ability to correct the harsher aspects of dramatic lighting, he said, he has been able to go beyond conventional studio lights.
Richard Curtis brought in Ben Elton to replace Atkinson on writing duties, newfound thriftiness-by-necessity turned it into a more conventional studio-based sitcom, and the rest was history.
There is no record that Giorgione ever had a conventional studio of his own, but it is possible that he was given space at Catena's studio in San Bartolomeo at Rialto.
"Cloud Atlas," with its $100 million budget and high-wattage cast, including the Academy Award winners Tom Hanks and Halle Berry, was an epic independent film too complicated, too expensive and perhaps too risky for any conventional studio to have backed.
Oddly, some American film sales executives appear to take a brighter view of Mr. Gibson's prospects than their European counterparts, perhaps because he has already been operating outside of conventional studio circles, so has little to fear from banishment.
Diversity, of course, signals a lack of interest in a signature style or conventional studio production, but it can still accrue into a look, as Mr. François's elegant, beautifully installed show suggests.
Like Jay-Z and Kanye West's recent "Watch the Throne," this album has major parts recorded in hotel rooms, a testament to the globalization and rootlessness of pop, to the outlandish prices of conventional studio time, to the desire to create in an environment of luxury, a liminal space with no repercussions.
