Meet the Irishwoman shaping the future of The Beatles' iconic recording home
Former investment analyst Isabel Garvey plans to make the world-renowned Abbey Road Studios a music tech and innovation powerhouse.
'This is the legendary studio where The Beatles recorded. You can see cigarette burns left by John Lennon on this Steinway honky-tonk piano. Men have been known to cry here when they get this close to the history," says Isabel Garvey, with a laugh.
Having worked her way up through the ranks of record companies EMI and Warner, the Ranelagh native and would-be tech start-up founder is overseeing a multi-million pound revamp of London's Abbey Road Studios as it repositions itself to become a leader in music technology and innovation as well as the go-to recording studio.
Part of the new strategy has seen the business link up with Cork Institute of Technology's Nimbus Centre, partnering with sound engineer and researcher Dr Derry Fitzgerald there, who hopes to secure Enterprise Ireland funding for a clever software innovation he calls "Photoshop for audio". It aims to make it easier to separate out different sounds on a piece of music and sample, remix and remaster the tracks.
He has previously worked on remastering songs for The Beach Boys and The Beatles Rock Band computer game.
By: John Reynpolds
Source: Irish Independent
