Kerri Chandler’s homage to nightclubs: Meridian Interview

The “Stevie Wonder of house music” uses tech to bring listeners into clubs alongside him.

10 Oct 2022

“If I wasn’t working on music on the stuff I love doing, I’d probably work at Dolby as an engineer,” Chandler says.

Immortalization, in Chandler’s view, requires technical accuracy. For each of the 24 songs, he set up a mobile recording studio in the center of the club’s dancefloor, with his laptop, interfaces, and all of the equipment he needed to produce a full-fledged track. Before recording, Chandler sat at a desk in the center of the room and imagined the way the clubs were usually filled with moving bodies.

An interview with Meridian