On Tuesday, I took a bunch of recordings around the Sound Arts rooms before close. I took close recodings by getting close up to humming elements in the room with my TASCAM DR 40X. This included; a computer, two radiators and and the water dispensor in the hall. I also took a sound recording of the fire exit which had a great natural reverb and a siren style noise, I thought pitched down that would work well potentially as a spaceship ambience. In the first clip, I have played around with some transitions and I feel like potentially with foot steps under it, this could sound a bit like someone walking through a soundscape. In order it’s a Pitched down radiator, into pitched down fire escape into pitched down radiator + water dispenser. I put high and low pass filters on these which accounted for some of the hiss and changed the points of these filters for each sound to see if it helped sell it as a new space better.
Here are a few more isolated room tones I was messing around with. I would like to keep doing this with animate objects and trying to build up a sound library. I think with the hydrophone recordings I probably have enough to start trying to piece together environment sounds for the ship on Solaris.
Listening back to these, I don’t know if I like the stereo image for atmos and i’m thinking I will experiment with A-B TASCAM DR 40X. Lavaliers might work better or perhaps even the H3 for the spatiality. It’s quite hard to consider what kind of frequency range needs to be captured when I am yet to mix in Surround.