Jotting down notes from today so I don’t have to do it later and to help formalize my thought process. I mixed these down into the sound devices and recorded in stereo. Hoping that I would have the original stems but unfortunately not. However. This can work with the bass rocker transducer speakers. As they are mono. L being in the stairwell and R being in the hallway space through upstairs of the gallery. I will play around with the separation of these L R signals tomorrow. Perhaps this will give an interesting sense of stretching the space. Which is in sync with the proposal of ‘abstracting’ the sound of the space from it’s reality. This term, abstractions seems very apt to the whole piece in general and will be a working title.
This stereo recording could sound out through the upstairs every 5 minutes or so. Tomorrow I will try this out with various mix downs of my sounds. The StarTech multichannel interface would allow me to play 8 different signals from the raspberry pie on loop. If I wanted each speaker to have a designated abstraction, I could mess around with mono versions of the shuffling and produce a multichannel arrangement with a very primitive randomisation – each loop varying in length, so the sounds never repeat in the same instances twice (except for at the start of the day when the piece begins).
I can bounce down the file of the recordings if people were interested. There is a bit of Milo and Michael speaking so depending on their comfort. As for the working sounds for the installation. I will cut out shuffling from what I recorded and keep any discernable words of people present separate from the work.