Lily Moayeri A specter of Harry Styles floats in Greg Penny’s studio, located in an industrial park in Ojai, California. In this 3,000-square-foot, high-ceilinged space that feels like a warehouse, a makeshift acoustically-treated room is created from compressed cotton panels made from shredded T-shirts.
These panels hang from a truss that looks like it should be on a small festival stage. There are a total of 13 speakers — arranged left, right and center; high, middle and on the floor in the front; and with two sets of left and right speakers about two-thirds of the way to the back of the mixing room.This is where Styles’ disembodied voice comes from, and if you close your eyes, you would swear that he is suspended in the air right in.
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