In response to my previous blog – talking about Ghost In The Loop’s work with hydrophobic recordings I chose to get experimental with my recordings.
I first began by recording underwater noise. This was only used within a small realm of a plastic box – however, I felt it was necessary to begin my work by understanding the movement and fluidity behind recording water sounds; I hope to hopefully expand this into the natural world soon.
After this, I began exploring the surrounding areas of my office – finding materials and objects which would usually give no sound. Some would say I was hunting noise. GILT’s work inspired me to go beyond and look deeper for sound, finding recordings in the lesser obvious spaces.
Finally, I chose to use objects which I knew would have a great potential for physical reverberation such as the slinky. This provided me with some really interesting and unique sounds that I could carry with me in my library through my later practice.
It was refreshing using the hydrophobic microphone and really forced me to look beyond what is sonically obvious in our daily lives. We are surrounded by noise constantly but sometimes going beyond what we can hear – searching deeper for recordings can result in something quite inspiring and diverse. I stepped out of my comfort zone and honed in on natural sounds that were there but could not be heard.
