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Started in 1987 by a group of city-fleeing musicians the Barn is a unique & beautiful recording space: a big room in the country (20'x30') with 20' ceilings and mud-brick walls providing an excellent sonic atmosphere. Guided by a "how-to-make-adobes" book from the local library, listening to Minutemen & Black Uhuru cassettes, these un-trained builder-musicians would start rolling tape as soon as the rain was kept out. Documenting the demise of the legendarily unknown Whitefronts & the birth of the dangerously prolific Lords of Howling with a borrowed OTARI MX 5050 8-track the Barn has been, from the start, a busy recording studio. (The Lords of Howling would record 12 cassettes & a CD here). Visits by Granfaloon Bus, RollerBall, Jonathon Segal/Heironymous Firebrain & Victor Krumenacher kept the walls humming. Larry Crane, TAPE OP founder, visited, played some music & wrote about the happenings at the faraway studio in the early days of his magazine. For many years the studio was a refuge for local free-music makers & marching bands. Art of Flying would record their first CD (an eye full of lamp) & a 10" record (galala). 20 years after the first ground-breakings the Barn underwent a major renovation & ultimately a completion of the first big dreams: the installation of a 36 channel QUAD EIGHT console & 2" 16-track MCI tape-deck. Art of Flying has christened it with their 7th release: ThOUGH the LIGHT seem SMALL.