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Giles Martin's entire life revolves around Abbey Road, the recording studio where the Beatles and their father, George Martin, created all those timeless songs and records that still sound modern today.
His mother started working at Abbey Road in 1948 and his father in 1950. There they met, there they discovered their common passion for music and his son now works there
, looking for new ways to renew the sound of the Beatles.
The latest link in this endless race to bring new material to beatlemaniacs is
Apple Music's spatial audio version of Disc
1 , which involves
a new three-dimensional arrangement of elements and leads to an immersive experience
.
Now, from the studio where some songs by Ella Fitzgerald,
Sgt. Peppers
or the
Dark Side of the Moon
were recorded , Martin speaks via videoconference about this delicate assignment, which seeks to make the listener feel in the same place as magic happens, one step away from the musicians.
“In that sense,
Abbey Road is like a teapot that is usually clean, but still has the flavor of all the teas you've had
.
Here the walls are drenched in sound.
You enter one of those rooms and you feel that you are in a special place.
That's something you can't design, it just happens.
The magic and grandeur of Abbey Road creates such a magical environment for musicians.
With spatial audio you can travel back in time
, being there with the band, sharing the same space as them.
That is priceless for any fan.
In fact, Martin recalls with visibly emotional the first day he stepped foot in Studio 2 at Abbey Road.
«
My father began to lose his hearing and I became his ears
.
He hadn't reunited with the Beatles since they broke up, but he went into control, put the four-track into gear, and I heard how John was there, talking to him, in a conversation that had taken place many years before.
I thought:
'This is magic'
.
We get old, records don't.
And the best example is precisely the validity of songs like
Strawberry Fields forever
, which has also received spatial audio treatment on the 55th anniversary of its recording.
Some may consider it an outrage to go back to playing what is already perfect and has been recorded for posterity, but the express mandate of Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono and the descendants of George Harrison and John Lennon is precisely to adapt to the new times and technologies so that his legacy continues to grow.
«Paul told me: 'I don't want to be trapped in a museum, behind a showcase, I want people to continue discovering things, to listen to those songs and have an opinion, to reach the new generations'».
Martin's work is a work of goldsmith, since, on the one hand, he is obliged to "honor and respect the original, as well as the decisions that were made in the study", and, on the other hand, he must add different layers that allow feel the place that each instrument occupies in a much more detailed way than with mono or stereo sound.
“Not only are they going to hear it, they are going to really hear it.
The technology does not matter, the important thing is what does this song make me feel?
That is the key », he explains.
Martin also gets emotional when talking about Get back, the Peter Jackson documentary in which he has been instrumental.
“I saw my father younger than I am now.
The feeling is very strange, even more so knowing that I was conceived at some point in that recording!
I worked on those songs as if I had the Beatles on one shoulder and my father on the other, and I also have to take into account the fans of the band and their expectations.
Mission accomplished.
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