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Field Recording//Camden Market [10.08.09]

Recorded last night in Camden Market using the field recording app for the iPhone: FiRe. The quality isn’t so bad considering I used the in-built microphone of the iPhone.

Thunderstorm // 3rd July 2009 (2:40)

This is an extract from a good half hour of recordings I took from the thunderstorm on Thursday night in Felixstowe. I mixed this on headphones, and since I don’t have my monitors to test it on I’m really hoping that the low-end frequencies aren’t too heavy in the mix when listening on anything other than my cans.

It’s really foggy here in Felixstowe, so I thought I’d head down to the port to see if I could record some ships sounding their fog horns as they come into the harbour. Of course there wasn’t a ship in sight, but I got a few nice recordings of the waves lapping on the beach, and some children running about. And yes it was me that the little girl said “what’s the matter?” to, but I just smiled. She must have thought that I was some weirdo kneeling down by the sea. I don’t blame her.

Yeah, so for anyone who’s missed it, it’s my end of year exhibition tomorrow and the idea is that I’ve recorded 10 journeys that I make as a commuter regularly around London. I’ve then put each of these recordings on its own separate mp3 player that I will be giving out at the exhibition. The idea behind the piece is that commuters who turn to mp3 players whilst travelling are closing their ears to the sounds of the environment around them, due to the use of headphones and music, so they can use my mp3 players to reengage with the sounds they’d usually miss.

So today’s upload is of all the 10 recordings that I made layered to play all at the same time. Of course in the exhibition the listener will only hear one of the recordings at any one time but I thought this would be interesting.

study #99

I’ve been so busy with my school projects lately I haven’t really had a chance to get any good recording done, let alone any compositions, but here’s a recording of a happy event at the student union last Friday. Lots of drink, laughing and scottish accents.

I think this is a good example of what Barry Truax refers to as ‘Sonic Tourism’ where recordings are used to take a snapshot of an event much like a photograph.

I got a pack of Pop Rocks over the weekend from a really nice sweet shop in Covent Garden and thought it would be fun to record the sound of them popping in my mouth. So here’s a short edit from the recording.

I was doing more recording today on the London public transport system as part of my sounds_of_the_city.mp3 piece for the end of year show and whilst traveling from Liverpool Street to King’s Cross a guy got on the train with a guitar and started to play Seal’s Kiss From a Rose. Here’s the recording of it made with my new Microphone Madness binaural microphones running into my Edirol. I wasn’t that close, and the noise from the tube drowns him out a little but you get the idea.