Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen is the name of the recording studio that Frank Zappa built and used extensively for many of his musical recordings.
The studio was completed on September 1, 1979 at his home in the Hollywood Hills and the recording of several songs that were eventually released on the album You Are What You Is began in July 1980.
A mobile UMRK was used in the first cable TV / FM "Simulcast" for Frank Zappa's 1981 Halloween show, live from Palladium which was shown on MTV with the audio-only portion broadcast over FM's new "Starfleet Radio" network. Engineered by Mr. Zappa's long-time audio engineer Mark G. Pinske with the UMRK mobile recording truck.
The house has been owned by Lady Gaga since 2016. That's one of the studios she used for the recording of her sixth album, Chromatica.
