Drums were recorded downstairs and guitars were recorded upstairs, with video screens in each room so the members could see one another while tracking.
Some places don't look like galleries at all: Darren Flook and Christabel Stewart's Hotel, one of the best-rated new spaces, was, until they took over the record shop downstairs last year, the couple's three by four metre spare bedroom.
The other is multiroom playback, which lets you watch a show recorded on the downstairs TiVo on the TiVo in the bedroom.
In a downstairs recording studio in the West Village, Bryan Elsley, a co-creator of the British teenage comedy-drama "Skins," was guiding James Newman, a star of the MTV remake of the show, through a typical line of dialogue.
In one, his father paced upstairs, creaked chairs, painted, while his mother, downstairs, played records, ran water over dishes, laughed on the telephone, her voice trailing up the curve of the long stair.
There is a live room / rehearsal space downstairs, but we recorded the record in the mixing / production room.
In fact, I just went downstairs to my record collection to sniff the faded purple liner with the lyrics.
We adjourn downstairs to the recording studio where assembled "people" (PR, A&R man, vocal engineer) make jokes, much to Leona's mirth, about tiny LA dogs wearing dinosaur-shaped coats.
"The hall and most of the downstairs are stuffed with records".
Mr. Hancock, who's enjoying himself, plays soft rubato chords over Ms. Carrington's minimal dancefloor-beat pattern that sounds like your old downstairs neighbor's house records: Boompf.
