Salvation runs the music conservatory that occupies about a quarter of the second floor of the west wing of the castle. The conservatory is subdivided into a recording/mixing studio, a small performance area with a stage, a general practice area, and four small private practice areas.
The recording studio is rigged for both digital and analog recording, and is capable of recording a six-voice band simultaneously. The performance area is rigged with acoustical tile to best contain and focus the sound, and there is both a standing area and a raised sitting area (Balcony? I don't know how tall each floor is.) The performance area can also be rigged for live recordings, routing them through to the mixing booth in the recording studio.
The general practice area is large and acoustically dampened to contain the echo of individual instruments against stone. One of virtually every instrument ever made is availible for check-out, and if what you want isn't there Sal is usually able to procure it. The centerpiece of the room is the
Steinway Grand Piano, seemingly sculpted from marble. An extensive music library is also availible, ranging from classical pieces written for full orchestra to the piano part to Clocks to Miles Davis jazz to guitar parts to Slayer and Rancid.
The individual practice rooms are about 7'x7', acoustically dampened. These can also be rigged for recording, though they usually are not.
Salvation's personal room is adjacent to the conservatory, along the north wall of the west wing, about 10'x15'. It's relatively empty - a large bed and nightstand, a closet just big enough to walk in, a desk where his computer and various other clutter rests, and bookcases along the west wall. On the north wall, in between two small windows, is the map detailing his travels in Philmont; directly opposite this is a
poster-sized copy of the cover art to the John Coltrane album Blue Train Sessions. His bed is wedged into the north-east corner of the room; above it is a print of
Van Gogh's Starlight Over the Rhone. A small bathroom is adjacent to the east. The door to Sal's room is on the south wall, about three feet from the south-west corner of the room; the door to the bathroom is on the east wall, about the same distance away from the south wall.
Here I am, to sing you a song. And there you are, asleep against the windowpane, just like always.
Melonpool
by Lt. Bunny on Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:39 pm
