Working with Ciaran Clarke, a specialist in spatial audio, we produced recordings using a first-order ambisonic mic that uses 4 microphones to create a highly spatial soundscape.
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Here’s the microphone, a Rode Rode NT-SF1, before it gets housed in its very effective wind-jammer.
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We started with recording the nearest water source, in the kitchen. Where I live, on a flood plane, I’m often acutely aware of how interconnected all these disparate water courses are: drains that fail; porous granite, streams that can block and overflow, the rising sea level.
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We then did a series of recordings at Longrock Pool and Marazion Marshes, including of a train passing through the centre of the Marsh.
Longrock Pool being so close to a busy road is very challenging to record. The traffic sounds dominate, oppressively. This becomes even more apparent when listening to an audio recording without the contextual visuals.
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