The House of Music is the personal vision of Italian producer and former DJ Andrea Lo Solfo, a figure in the Italian dance and progressive scene in the 1990s and 2000s.
Lo Solfo now works outside the music industry, but has set his mind on the creation of a modern music studio in Warsaw: and so, The House of Music was born, powered exclusively by Genelec Smart Active Monitoring.
Combining Italian taste with Polish precision, the facility fuses Lo Solfo’s personal aesthetic with his wife Gosia’s architectural sensibility.
The facility also has a broader educational mission. “We also wanted to create a Dolby-certified facility capable of hosting producers, serving as a laboratory for immersive audio production, and acting as a base for educational activities and courses focused on Dolby Atmos Music and immersive workflows,” Lo Solfo reveals. “With this, we can position the studio as a true laboratory for music creation rather than a purely post-production environment.”
With Acusticarte from Rome handling the facility construction, the acoustic and interior design were masterminded by Studio Sound Service from Florence. “We actually began the design back in 2017, when Andrea and Gosia were still planning the construction of the new facility,” comments Studio Sound Service’s Donato Masci. “Since the building itself was intended to realise Andrea’s vision for the music studio, the construction and optimisation spanned several years, with the pandemic further extending the timeline.”
The studio’s 7.1.4 immersive system features a pair of Genelec 1238As as main L/R monitors with a horizontal 1238AC in the centre position, complemented by eight 8340As for surrounds and overheads. A 7380A subwoofer handles LF duties. The room also includes two pairs of compact 8341A three-way coaxial monitors, one pair for stereo nearfield work at the front of the room, with the second pair integrated into the DJ set-up at the rear of the space.