2020 · album
An album made across separate rooms, followed by the filmed performance that brought its collaborators together in upstate New York.
The geography of folklore changes between the album and its filmed performance. The record was made while its collaborators worked apart. Later, Long Pond became a place to play the songs together and talk about how they had been created. The same music moves from a dispersed working process into a shared room.
These historical places remain in the list while their map positions are researched.
Producer Aaron Dessner’s account places his studio, Long Pond, in New York’s Hudson Valley, while Swift recorded her folklore vocals at a makeshift studio in her Los Angeles home with engineer Laura Sisk. Dessner and Long Pond engineer Jonathan Low listened remotely through Audiomovers. Distance became part of the production method: musicians could respond to a performance without being beside the singer. The studio geography is therefore a connection between rooms, rather than a single building that can stand for every session. [1]
Disney’s original announcement dates filming of the Long Pond studio sessions to September 2020 in upstate New York. Swift, Dessner and Jack Antonoff performed the album and discussed its making, with a guest appearance by Justin Vernon. Swift directed the film. The location gave the project another form: songs assembled at a distance became a performance and conversation that viewers could follow within one setting. The film is a later encounter with the album, and Long Pond’s role in that gathering is different from its role during remote production. [2]
Los Angeles: a bedroom in a private home
2020
Taylor Swift recorded her folklore vocals at a makeshift studio in her Los Angeles home with Laura Sisk; Aaron Dessner and Jonathan Low listened remotely from Long Pond. [1]
A residential location: respect the occupants’ privacy.
Hudson Valley, upstate New York: a private studio
September 2020
Taylor Swift filmed folklore: the long pond studio sessions in upstate New York in September 2020, performing with Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff, with a guest appearance by Justin Vernon. [2] [1]
A residential location: respect the occupants’ privacy.
Both production settings are private working spaces. No home address or map position is supplied. The film provides a way to encounter the studio setting without implying a public tour or permission to visit.
