Pianist Jonathan Comisar buried in the piano amidst a heap of microphones. Foreground: Robert Nath’s score for the piece “V’shamru”, part of the larger work being recorded. Photo taken in the Mezzanine room.
Composer Robert Nath is working on an ambitious musical setting of Jewish songs, and has been recording at Dubway over the course of the past few months to bring this vision to life. Along with producer, arranger, and pianist Jonathan Comisar, an all-star crew of musicians, and Dubway engineer Keenan DuBois, Nath is building a lush musical world for these songs to inhabit.
Recordings have taken place in the Mezzanine studio, with DuBois and the musicians forced to get creative in recording a classical ensemble in traditional stereo during the distancing-era of COVID (as you can see from the array of stereo techniques in the photo above!). In another hallmark of the current times, Nath produces and monitors the recordings remotely via an internet link to the studio’s control room, allowing him to make performance calls just as if he were in the room with the engineer.
The pieces currently have their musical parts recorded, and are heading into vocal recording and mixing next. Stay tuned!