Camp Watertown

Studio

Camp Watertown is Mark’s personal recording and mix studio and is built around his extensive instrument collection. There are keyboards including a Steinway A, Antique Reed Organs, Giulietti Free Bass Accordions, Moog Synths, and a 4-octave Schoenhut Toy Piano. There are Guitars, Dobros, and Banjos dating back to the 1850’s alongside an array of unusual percussion including tuned gongs, a tam tam, and a megabass waterphone. This is all in addition to his collection of far reaching musical ephemera: Marxophone, Ukelin, Treble Viol, Stroh Violin, Bass and Chord Harmonicas, Hurdy Gurdy, and a Concert Cimbalom among others.

On the recording side, Camp Watertown is a combination of the best vintage and new recording gear. Centered around a Manley console it includes outboard from Rupert Neve Designs, Millennia Media, Tube-Tech, LaChapell, Dangerous Music, and Bricasti, with microphones from Schoeps, Neumann, AKG, and Sennheiser alongside less conventional recording technologies including both wire and cylinder recorders.

Mark is comfortable on either side of the recording console and mixes many of his scores and records. In his early 20’s he worked for several years as an engineer at The Knitting Factory in NYC. At the time it was the seminal club for the avant garde/improv/new-music scene in NY. He worked with 100’s of artists there including John Zorn, Sun Ra, Steve Lacy, Laurie Anderson, Sonic Youth, and The Kronos Quartet. His subsequent work as a live sound engineer included tours with Bill Frisell, John Lurie and The Lounge Lizards, and Mr. Bungle.