Fig. 9: After lifting the wall element up it is filled with mineral wool. Fig. 10: The first wall has got the inner two plasterboard layers and the second wall is already up. Note that the wall doesn’t quite touch the ceiling. Fig. 11: Both walls are complete and the gaps have been filled with polyurethane foam. Fig. 12: These supports will prevent the walls from falling outwards. Note the mineral wood padding that will reduce sound leakage into the ceiling. 6 9 7 10 8 11 12 Fig. 6: The most unevenly cut curtains ever seen. They don’t have to be pretty on this side; they’re designed to look nice from the outside of the studio, through the windows that will be sealed off when the floating walls are installed. Fig. 7: We started building the first wall by cutting six metal bars to a length that is just a little less than the height of the room and aligning them on the floor, half a plasterboard width apart from each other. Fig. 8: Next we attached two layers of plasterboard on the metal bars. The “wall element” is now ready to be lifted up. Note the hole in the lower left corner: a bunch of video and remote transport cables will go through this hole. 18 RECORDING JUNE 2011