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PJ Harvey's Somerset House Glass Box Recording

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Tickets to see award-winning singer songwriter PJ Harvey record her next album in a glass box at London's Somerset House have sold out.

The musician, who is the only person to have won the prestigious Mercury Prize twice, will be joined in the box by her band, producers and engineers.

The enclosed box will have one-way glazing so they will have no idea when people are watching. The sessions could be anything from improvisation to recording a bass drum. "I want Recording in Progress to operate as if we're an exhibition in a gallery," she said. "I hope people will see the attention and the labour and the care that goes into making a recording. I hope people will see the interactions between everyone involved."

The box will be situated in the New Wing, which was once used as the Inland Revenue's staff gym and rifle range.

The Devon-born musician's last release, 2011's Let England Shake, a collection of songs inspired by conflicts around the world, was her second Mercury winner, taking the prize for the best album of the year 10 years after Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea was honored.

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Reply #1 posted 01/06/15 1:47pm

Farfunknugin

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nowhere do i see when this will take place..

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Reply #2 posted 01/06/15 2:18pm

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Reply #3 posted 01/06/15 2:52pm

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damn I forgot it was sold out...........this looks like the best thing ever!

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Reply #4 posted 01/06/15 5:23pm

lezama

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I can't wait for new music from her. This event sounds like it'll be amazing.

Change it one more time..
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Reply #5 posted 01/06/15 5:36pm

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Folks, if you have never been to a recording session, it might be kind of fascinating for a little while. But as someone has spent countless hours in the studio, it sounds like the most boring thing ever. A LOT of time in studio is spent waiting. Most of the day. In a 12 hour session you would be very lucky to get an hour of music on tape. You might watch people move a microphone a fraction of an inch this way and that, and listen to the results, for 3 hours. It is only interesting when you are the one doing it (in which case those 12 hours fly by.)

It's kind of an interesting art project but I'll be happy to wait for the LP.

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Reply #6 posted 01/07/15 2:12am

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Yeah, too bad I live in Alaska, half way around the world
What about an online viewing?
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Reply #7 posted 01/08/15 2:36pm

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bobzilla77 said:

Folks, if you have never been to a recording session, it might be kind of fascinating for a little while. But as someone has spent countless hours in the studio, it sounds like the most boring thing ever. A LOT of time in studio is spent waiting. Most of the day. In a 12 hour session you would be very lucky to get an hour of music on tape. You might watch people move a microphone a fraction of an inch this way and that, and listen to the results, for 3 hours. It is only interesting when you are the one doing it (in which case those 12 hours fly by.)

It's kind of an interesting art project but I'll be happy to wait for the LP.

Yes, I feel the same. A lot of her work is like that these days, kind of very arty and self indulgent but really not that interesting to me. I loved her 90's stuff and Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea is one of my all time favorite albums. But her recent work although very critically acclaimed do nothing for me. I wonder what the new album will sound like? I'd like more of a rock/punk/blues sound but I have a feeling it will be another weird self indulgent one.

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Reply #8 posted 01/09/15 2:06pm

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Glindathegood said:

bobzilla77 said:

Folks, if you have never been to a recording session, it might be kind of fascinating for a little while. But as someone has spent countless hours in the studio, it sounds like the most boring thing ever. A LOT of time in studio is spent waiting. Most of the day. In a 12 hour session you would be very lucky to get an hour of music on tape. You might watch people move a microphone a fraction of an inch this way and that, and listen to the results, for 3 hours. It is only interesting when you are the one doing it (in which case those 12 hours fly by.)

It's kind of an interesting art project but I'll be happy to wait for the LP.

Yes, I feel the same. A lot of her work is like that these days, kind of very arty and self indulgent but really not that interesting to me. I loved her 90's stuff and Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea is one of my all time favorite albums. But her recent work although very critically acclaimed do nothing for me. I wonder what the new album will sound like? I'd like more of a rock/punk/blues sound but I have a feeling it will be another weird self indulgent one.

You didn't like Let England Shake? I thought that ranked up there as one of her best. The only thing she's done that Ive not been entirely thrilled with was White Chalk.

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Reply #9 posted 01/09/15 2:49pm

TASKAE

bobzilla77 said:

Folks, if you have never been to a recording session, it might be kind of fascinating for a little while. But as someone has spent countless hours in the studio, it sounds like the most boring thing ever. A LOT of time in studio is spent waiting. Most of the day. In a 12 hour session you would be very lucky to get an hour of music on tape. You might watch people move a microphone a fraction of an inch this way and that, and listen to the results, for 3 hours. It is only interesting when you are the one doing it (in which case those 12 hours fly by.)

It's kind of an interesting art project but I'll be happy to wait for the LP.

I don't know if I agree with you about it taking 12 hours, as it takes at most 2 hours for me to get the template for a song/composition out (I don't do it as a profession, maybe that's why) but I get what you're saying.

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Reply #10 posted 01/12/15 12:16pm

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^^ Results may vary. I've also done an album where we were done six hours after we started. And had days where we spent 12 hours in there where no music was played, just endlessly checking tones, tuning drumheads, re-setting amps, moving mics. It all depends what you need to get done that day. I'm just saying, it is a process that doesn't seem well suited for an audience to watch it happen in real time.

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Reply #11 posted 01/16/15 4:10pm

TASKAE

bobzilla77 said:

^^ Results may vary. I've also done an album where we were done six hours after we started. And had days where we spent 12 hours in there where no music was played, just endlessly checking tones, tuning drumheads, re-setting amps, moving mics. It all depends what you need to get done that day. I'm just saying, it is a process that doesn't seem well suited for an audience to watch it happen in real time.

I feel like I missed the boat about here, but I also get the sense that PJ Harvey is more derivative than her fans might want to admit.

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Reply #12 posted 01/23/15 2:12pm

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PJ Harvey Completes First Week of Recording

Read more at NME.com

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Reply #13 posted 01/23/15 3:29pm

luvsexy4all

this is so cool..too bad Prince didnt come up with this idea first

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