A music & entertainment company

Great WheelStudio

Music, in motion

MMXXVISouthern CaliforniaEli Hugh
01 — The Work

Ovation Cycle IThe Line of the North

A catalog built as a wheel — twelve songs, four movements.

Songwriting is the center of the studio. The first cycle turns from dream to crisis to an unexpected sunrise — written to be performed, recorded, and seen. Hover the wheel.

DreamExpansionCrisisAscent
Dream01 — 03

Make-believe, and the leaning toward hope.

01Make BelieveG
02It’s Gonna Take a WhileC
03Hope It’s YouEm
Expansion04 — 06

Love widens; the sky begins to leak.

04Planetary LoveA
05Look at the SkyD
06Fixing the LeakG
Crisis07 — 09

Paradise has problems. Don’t worry.

07Apocalypse in ParadiseAm
08Somebody Else’s ProblemC
09Ain’t No Need to WorryD
Ascent10 — 12

Marigolds, water, and an unexpected sunrise.

10MarigoldEm
11The Best Drug EverG
12Just Add WaterE
02 — The Artist

Eli Hugh is a composer and songwriter building a rock opera out of Southern California.

Great Wheel Studio is creator-owned and music-first — a company built to take songs out of demo form and into live performance, recordings, and visual work, and to own the line all the way through.

“Use recorded music as the source-code, but build the business around live activation, visual content, and a direct audience.”

It’s early. More work and more public material follow as they’re ready.

03 — The Practice

Different forms, one studio.

01
Songwriting

The catalog is the center of the studio — songs first, built to last.

02
Recording

Sessions and records, taking the songs out of demo form into finished work.

03
Performance

Music, played — stage works built from the songs, for the room and the screen.

04
Direct

Releases and updates straight from the studio — to you, not an algorithm.

04 — The Studio

Join the studio.

A direct, creator-owned membership. Hear the Ovation Cycle take shape before release, get behind-the-scenes from the studio, and own a place in the record — the audience funds the work as it’s made, with no label in the middle.

DirectFreeThe line — free
The Circle$10/moInner circle
Patron$40/moFounding patron
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The Store

Records & objects — coming.

Music and a small set of made things, direct from Great Wheel Studio.

A Great Wheel Studio company
Great Wheels

The studio’s transportation & automotive arm — touring, fleet, and a curated, photography-forward vehicle dealership.

Great Wheels →
05 — Direct

Hear it first, straight from the studio.

Join the line for early access to the Ovation Cycle, first word on releases and shows, and the occasional note from inside the work.