This week’s session was focused on using multidirectional field recording equipment, splitting ourselves into two groups to use the Zoom F8 with a multidirectional microphone to go record spaces around campus. Our group went to the park by Elephant and Castle, standing in the middle of park water sprinkers as well as me sitting in a bush with the microphone while others rustled the leaves around me.
We could not get the files working after recording sadly but the experience itself was very different to usual field recording practices, less pointing a microphone to record something particular but more capturing the entire space, which I found particularly exciting as a new kind of practice. The park playground was very busy so I couldnt do it really today, but I was thinking about trying recording things on the playground roundabout to create a bizarre spinning effect, maybe putting speakers around it, but it is just a thought. I haven’t started working on anything at the moment so I’m not sure if that effect would even fit, and I’m not sure if there will be much time for much practical experimentation, most of my time is spent on the train right now so I can’t do a lot of recording, so my track will probably just be a result of sounds I made earlier or samples or something that I can make on my laptop.
I think I might try and book the Zoom H3 VR for next week and see if I can do anything myself when I have the time, will see how things go, there is a lot going on in my own life right now that is preventing me from prioritising University work so I need to try and stop myself from falling behind.