Here are some of my favourite links shared in classes with Jose. We have been learning about layering sounds and I found this Jurassic Park video especially helpful when visualizing how someone might apply SFX design to a film by playing along on a loaded sampler. It took me a while to get to grips with using ableton and I am still in the process of working things out. It is a field I am interested in and one I’d like to improve at.
The final link – “‘I am here’, an exploration through Field Recordings”, is a collection of incapsulating field recordings and great inspiration for me as I am currently attempting to hone this craft. I am in the process of buying a lot of accessories for my field recorder and working out how I want to capture certain sounds.
NTS have called out for submissions of field recordings for an untitled project and I am using this as motivation to get recording. I have yet to get something I’m happy with to the minimum of 20 minutes without interuptions, but feel I am getting closer each time I go out. Here are a few recent examples.
This field recording was at Brighton Marina on a very windy day… It might be easy to predict the problem I ran into, but the casts whistling an creating the a percussive counterpoint with eachother was quite a capitivating sound. I might need a slightly bigger wind-shield to cut out some of the wind noise. I heard that cotton balls inside the wind shield might also help in more extreme circumstances. I set up the field recorder away from the wind and tried to block it with my body but unfortunately at times it broke through and clipped the microphone so I was only able to get around 6 minutes of stable soundscape…
Tried recording some soup simmering, it was hard to disguise my gas hob but something that would probably work better on an induction hob/eletric hob to get some clear boiling sounds, could work for creating a cauldron sound or lava.
Some builders were working on the flat next door of where I was staying, so I attempted to record them. Unfortunately they kept getting too quiet or too loud and a lot of the file clipped or you can hear me adjusting the input. However I did get a few nice drill sounds and hammer sounds I would like to try and turn into some sort of collage.