A morning at a recording studio

   

I got to go to a recording studio for once! I was recording an interview for real radio … not just in my home office Zooming for a podcast.

Photograph of part of a big new building, about six storeys tall, and strangely featureless: it looks like a giant metal box, broken only by a handful of vents, with just one column of windows at the corner. It dwarfs the small, old commercial buildings to its right.

The imposing new building on the left is the new home of Vancouver’s notoriously foul-smelling chicken processing plant — presumably stink-insulated now.

The studio is the teensy little old commercial building beside it. 😜 …… I was there courtesy of NPR, to record an interview for "The Body Electric." I have more to say about the experience here… and the disappointing results, too.

But the recording experience was fun. The last time I did real radio was in the early 2000s when I hosted a very artsy Friday night anything-goes show for a while (RIP Mike). And I did a few gigs as an aspiring freelance audio producer for CBC Radio One. Good times!

There was a lot I loved about the work, and I mostly abandoned it in favour of massage therapy and writing.

So it was kind of exciting to get an invite from NPR. Felt a bit overdue, frankly!