NEW YORK, NY -- 07/20/09 --
In 1968 John Storyk graduated from Princeton,
moved to New York City and within a few months found himself designing and
literally working as a carpenter on Cerebrum, a downtown NYC club. One
night Jimi Hendrix dropped in. Impressed, he hired Storyk to create his
personal recording studio. Forty years later Electric Lady
(http://www.electricladystudios.com/) is still churning out hits, and
Storyk has chalked up over 3000 studio designs for superstars like Alicia
Keys and Led Zeppelin.
With offices in New York, Switzerland, Argentina and Brazil, and
representatives in China, San Francisco and Miami, his wife/business
partner Beth Walters, and their 50-member Walters-Storyk Design Group
(http://www.wsdg.com/) team have created sophisticated production
environments for clients like Green Day, R Kelley and Tim 'Timbaland
Mosley. "Our niche is unique," John Storyk says. "In addition to
aesthetics, our rooms need to be acoustically accurate, and, each studio
must reflect the artists' personal tastes."
Buffalo-based Super group Goo Goo Dolls' Inner Machine, was an opportunity
for Storyk to revisit Trackmasters, a studio he first designed in 1986.
"Back then Johnny Rzeznik and Robby Takac were studio interns there," he
says. "Twenty-years and 9 million + records later they bought it and
called us for a total remake."
Storyk recently returned to his early NYC club design days, for Le Poisson
Rouge (http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/). Forty years ago it was The Village
Gate, presenting artists like Miles Davis and Billy Holiday. Last year two
young musician /entrepreneurs retained us to turn it into a high-concept
club/art gallery. "It's compatible with any musical style, from a string
quartet to Norah Jones, Mos Def and Lou Reed. How cool would it be if LPR
draws crowds for as long as Electric Lady has been recording artists like
U2, Dylan and The Stones?" Storyk wonders.
Recent WSDG assignments include a studio for Bruce Springsteen and Storyk's
first 2nd generation client. 30+ years after designing a studio for Bob
Marley, he's creating one for Marley's son Damian.
No one has tabulated how many Gold records have been cut in Storyk-designed
studios. But with Elton John, Common, Bowie, Beyonce, Jay-Z... virtually
every icon of the past 40 years recording in Storyk rooms, sales probably
number in the hundreds of millions. It boggles the mind.
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