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A studio man in Seaside keeps the music going
A
s the pandemic drew musicians into
home studios, Zoom and YouTube,
Kyle Manship navigated his own
sound studio enterprise from a room in his
southeast hills home. The tricked-out stu-
dio presents the tools for mixes, masters and
start-to-fi nish music production.
“This is a great space and a great place for
someone to come in and have a good time,”
he said. “When you hear the samples of what
I’ve done, not to toot my own horn, but peo-
SEEN FROM SEASIDE
R.J. MARX
ple say, ‘Wow, that sounds like what I hear
from the record company.’ That’s why I
started this — to get back to doing that qual-
ity of work.”
A defense contractor with a company
based in Flagstaff , Arizona, his day job
enables him to maintain his second career.
“It sometimes can be a lot of hours, but
it’s a good balance,” he said.
Raised in Muncie, Indiana, his father
owned a commercial recording studio.
“Growing up as a kid I was immersed in
music,” Manship said. “He and his friends
are all outstanding musicians and I started
playing drums with them when I was about
14 or 15. I cut my teeth doing a lot of ses-
sion work, getting countless session work
and learning the ropes on how to record,
mix and master.”
Manship grew up playing along with
recordings from Pearl Jam, Soundgarden
and other ’90s bands, but also became famil-
iar with the ’70s and ’80s music of his
father’s generation — Eric Clapton, Cream
and Led Zeppelin.
In college, he would return home to work
in the studio, where he became familiar with
all kinds of music.
“I worked on everything from Chris-
tian rap to death metal and everything in
between, which is a good thing,” he said. “It
eliminates your bias towards certain music
and you meet interesting people at the same
time. You learn to make that genre sound the
best that it possibly can.”
Manship earned a bachelor of science
degree in aeronautical engineering technol-
ogy at Purdue University and a master of
science degree in applied information man-
agement from the University of Oregon.
As a second lieutenant after Purdue with
R.J. Marx
Kyle Manship and singer-songwriter Segrid Coleman in Manship’s Seaside studio.
the ROTC, he spent two years on active duty
in the U.S. Air Force before a career as a
defense contractor.
He and his family lived in North Bend,
Washington, and Scottsdale, Arizona, before
moving to Seaside last year. His wife, Kate,
is a special education teacher at Pacifi c Ridge
Elementary; Miles, 12, attends Seaside Mid-
dle School and Isla, 9, attends Pacifi c Ridge.
Kate’s parents live downstairs in a fully fur-
nished basement.
His studio business saw a reboot in
Seaside.
“Basically, the whole time we were in
Arizona, I didn’t do anything,” Manship
said. “I had drums, but never played them,
or rarely. I prioritized family and work.”
The job here aff orded him the opportu-
nity to develop the studio.
“That was another fringe benefi t,” he
said. “It wasn’t in the forefront of my mind,
but we saw this house and this space. This
was perfect to start.”
While the COVID-19 pandemic has cut
down on live studio recording, people are
still coming in, he said, including guitarist
Bruce Smith and Astoria-based singer-song-
writer Segrid Coleman.
Manship plays drums behind Coleman
and his father provides bass and guitar tracks
from his studio in Colorado using a record-
ing interface. When musicians record from
their own home studios, they may not have
the experience or the tools to mix and master
their tracks, he said. They send their tracks
to a studio like his.
“Essentially, I have an online store,”
Manship said. “Somebody can send me their
work, I can say, ‘Hey, here’s what it needs
from my professional perspective. Here’s
what it will take if you want it to be industry
standard quality. Here’s what we need to do.’
And you can elect to do that.”
He said he is slowly getting the word out
in Clatsop County, with his website seaside-
soundstudios.myshopify.com, local social
media sites and contacts with local busi-
nesses like Music 101 on Avenue S.
“Especially for local artists, my rates are
very reasonable because I do this for more
than the love of money,” he said. “Any
money I make goes right back into the busi-
ness. I think I’m unique in the position that
nobody that I know of, unless you go to
Portland, has the kind of equipment that I
have. I can’t fi t an orchestra in here, but any
singer-songwriter, artist — I can certainly
get you in here and we’re going to give you
industry-standard quality.”
Coleman said “Kyle’s got this really
amazing natural talent for taking any artist
with any project, no matter what the level is,
in just raising mediocrity and bringing it into
a spectrum where it shines. He is a real gem
to be found in Seaside.”
“I said, ‘Hey, why don’t you come in and
check it out,” Manship said. “And here we
are, about to release a seven-song CD next
month.”
CLIMATE CHANGE
PUBLIC MEETINGS
Rising temps put ecosystem under stress
Contact local agencies for latest meeting information and atten-
dance guidelines.
By ABBEY MCDONALD
The Astorian
Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District Board of Direc-
tors, 5:15 p.m., 1225 Ave. A.
TUESDAY, Feb. 22
MONDAY, Feb. 28
A sign of climate change has gone
unseen — and underfoot — on the Ore-
gon Coast.
A recent study from a team of scien-
tists at Oregon State University found
that, for at least the past decade, sea-
weed, barnacles, mussels, anemones
and other species that make up the eco-
system on rocky coastlines have weak-
ened as temperatures rise.
“To the untrained eye, you wouldn’t
actually be able to see this,” said Sarah
Gravem, a postdoctoral researcher
and co-author of the study. “But what
it’s showing us is that there are symp-
toms of climate change that are not that
apparent, unless you start really exper-
imenting and tracking things in detail
over long periods of time.”
Between 2011 and 2019, the team
monitored several plots in Cape Foul-
weather, Cape Perpetua and Cape
Blanco. They found that natural varia-
tion increased, a sign of instability and
an indication that an ecosystem may
change.
The experimental approach they
took brought more startling results,
though, in an ecosystem that had previ-
ously appeared resistant to stress.
Assuming the role of a hypothetical
storm, heat wave or disease, the team
cleared another small plot at each site
— every year — for nearly a decade.
They removed all visible species,
including mussels, barnacles and sea
stars. Then, they tracked how quickly
the site could recover.
Over time, the plots’ ability to
bounce back slowed, and its varia-
tion increased. This showed that in the
last decade, the intertidal zones have
become less resilient and more vulner-
able to disruptive events.
The plots became more vacant over
time.
Bruce Menge, the lead author on
the study, is particularly concerned
with the decline of mussels, which sup-
port hundreds of other species. Though
their total disappearance is not immi-
PUBLISHER
EDITOR
Kari Borgen
R.J. Marx
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m., 989 Broadway.
TUESDAY, March 1
Seaside Community Center Commission, 10 a.m., Bob
Chisholm Community Center, 1225 Avenue A.
Seaside Planning Commission, 6 p.m., 989 Broadway.
WEDNESDAY, March 2
Gearhart City Council, 7 p.m., www.cityofgearhart.com.
THURSDAY, March 3
Seaside Parks Advisory Committee, 6 p.m., 989 Broadway.
MONDAY, March 7
Seaside Housing Task Force, 6 p.m., 989 Broadway.
Lydia Ely/The Astorian
THURSDAY, March 10
People walk along an intertidal zone at Hug Point.
Seaside Convention Center Commission, 5 p.m., 415 First
Ave., Seaside.
nent, their revealed vulnerability has
long-term implications.
“The main appeal of rocky shores
to the average person is probably just
as a cool place to go and look at really
colorful and abundant organisms. That
would pretty much disappear. It would
not be anywhere near as colorful or as
interesting as it is now,” Menge said.
Throughout the study, the team
measured environmental factors, and
found a strong association between
changes to temperature and the weak-
ening recovery rate.
“With climate change, the biggest
thing that’s changing — at least in the
immediate sense — is temperature. So
I think it’s fairly clear that these are
probably related directly or indirectly
to warming,” Menge said.
They believe the fi ndings apply to
the North Coast and beyond. Though
results varied depending on local
wildlife populations, signs of declin-
ing resilience and increasing variation
were found at all sites.
Though more visible signs of cli-
mate change occur off shore, such as
the movement of fi sh populations to
deeper water, Gravem said the growing
evidence on the shore is notable.
“I think, in the subtidal, we’re see-
ing these changes. They’re slapping
MONDAY, March 14
CIRCULATION
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Shannon Arlint
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us in the face. So if anything, they’re
stronger there,” she said.
Menge said the fi ndings are star-
tling because, since the 1980s, data
from the intertidal zone had depicted
a stress-resistant ecosystem despite
climate change. For decades, the spe-
cies had stable populations that looked
unaff ected.
“What that means is there can be
some pretty stark changes that are
going on that are hidden,” Menge
said. “And to us they were hidden
until we analyzed these experimen-
tal data and saw: ‘Whoa, the system is
responding.’”
The researchers said that a large-
scale eff ort to address climate change
will be needed to address the issue.
“This is a big mess,” Gravem said.
“And without really addressing all
these emissions, and changing our
electric grid to renewable energy, we’re
not going to stop seeing this stuff . And
we need national legislation and inter-
national legislation.”
“It needs to have teeth,” Menge
added. “The science has been clear
for decades. And scientists have been
warning the public and politicians for
as long as that, and it’s been largely
ignored because it’s inconvenient to
change how you live.”
PRODUCTION
MANAGER
CONTRIBUTING
WRITERS
John D. Bruijn
Skyler Archibald
Joshua Heineman
Katherine Lacaze
Esther Moberg
SYSTEMS
MANAGER
Carl Earl
CONTRIBUTING
PHOTOGRAPHER
Jeff TerHar
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m., 989 Broadway.
TUESDAY, March 15
Seaside Planning Commission, work session, 6 p.m., 989
Broadway.
Seaside School District, 6 p.m., https://www.seaside.k12.
or.us/.
TUESDAY, March 22
Seaside Airport Advisory Committee, 6 p.m., 989 Broadway.
MONDAY, March 28
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m., 989 Broadway.
TUESDAY, March 29
Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District Board of Direc-
tors, 5:15 p.m., 1225 Ave. A.
Gearhart City Council work session, 6:30 p.m., www.cityof-
gearhart.com.
TUESDAY, April 5
Seaside Community Center Commission, 10 a.m., Bob
Chisholm Community Center, 1225 Avenue A.
Seaside Planning Commission, 6 p.m., 989 Broadway.
WEDNESDAY, April 6
Gearhart City Council, 7 p.m., www.cityofgearhart.com.
THURSDAY, April 7
Seaside Parks Advisory Committee, 6 p.m., 989 Broadway.
MONDAY, April 11
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m., 989 Broadway.
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