My friend has a motorboat that he has had a strong connection with for most of his life. I wanted to help him say goodbye to the boat by making a piece that will be able to take him to the boat whenever he misses it after he sells the boat.
My plan is to make a multichannel (likely 8 channel audio capture) of the boat using a combination of recording techniques. This includes binaural microphone recording as well as using the ambisonic recorder. Small background – binaural audio replicates a particular person’s pov of hearing and binaural captures a 360 degree audio field that is completely unbiased which sounds quite different but I think are equally important in recreating the sound in a space. My idea is to amplify the recordings by panning them together in various ways spatially to create an effective soundscape. The documentation of this will be through comparing the outcomes of mixing down the multichannel sound.
I will be comparing the effectiveness of these techniques
- Stereo Mixing
- Binaural recording of the space
- Max MSP – recreating the space with a patch that recreates the space itself through a sort of room panner
- Similar to panning tools that are specifically for multichannel, but this one is for the audience
- Example
- Similar to panning tools that are specifically for multichannel, but this one is for the audience
How? – Boat trip – Recording out on a boat with both microphones while we have a small intimate chat about the boat and the history with it.