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The Late Bowie conference graphic: a photograph of David Bowie blindfolded, with the conference title, dates and venue

14 September 2026

Late Bowie: Legacy, Mortality and the Archival Impulse

A two-day conference at the studio on 5 and 6 November, on Bowie's late work and its afterlives.

Tony Visconti, Gerry Conway, Ralph McTell and Frank Gallagher standing together in the live room behind a drum kit

31 August 2026

Ralph McTell sessions, summer 2026

Ralph McTell was in the live room through July and August 2026, recording new material with Graham Preskett and Rob Plummer.

The Stylophonika sleeve with its pink vinyl record

5 November 2021

Stylophonika

The Stylophone Orchestra debut album, made largely at a distance and finished back in the live room.

Visconti Studio octagon graphic

10 February 2021

The score was for The World To Come

A year on, the film score recorded at the 2020 Winter School could be named: Daniel Blumberg score for The World To Come.

Peter Walsh with Chris Spedding, Sarah Brown, and the Winter School students and interns in the live room

14 February 2020

The third Winter School, with Peter Walsh

Peter Walsh ran the third Winter School, with Chris Spedding, Sarah Brown, and Tom Wheatley in the room.

The Hill of Beans album cover, a black and white portrait of Ralph McTell

23 September 2019

Ralph McTell, Hill of Beans

Ralph McTell Hill of Beans, produced by Tony Visconti here and engineered by two Kingston graduates.

The Reveries album cover

19 September 2019

S.O.L Collective, Reveries

Reveries, made in a single week at the Winter School and tracked straight to tape.

The Kingston University Stylophone Orchestra gathered in the control room in matching t-shirts

11 September 2019

Tony Visconti produces the Stylophone Orchestra

Tony Visconti produced the Kingston University Stylophone Orchestra, including an arrangement of Space Oddity.

Stuart Zender playing bass in the live room, in a fur hat, screens and microphone stands around him

20 February 2019

The second Winter School, with Chris Kimsey

Chris Kimsey led the second Winter School, and an entire album was cut to two inch tape in five days.

Three microphones lined up side by side on stands for the preamp comparison

4 October 2018

The microphone preamp experiment

A controlled comparison of Audient preamps, engineered by Rob Plummer with Zach Johnson performing.