Today we received a lecture from Jez Riley French, who gave us an insight into the fascinating world of location sound recording and experimental approaches to it.
Whilst not highly interested into this area of work I found it extremely interesting which surprised me. Jez’s techniques using contact microphones and hydrophones to capture some unexpected sounds from very unexpected places got me very interested.
The other thing that surprised me was the pure duration of the pieces that Jez created, some spanning up to 8 hours long. The pieces consisting of the hydrophone on some pond weed and the other mic that allowed u to literally hear the earth turning really got me thinking.
Whilst having not been interested in this approach at the start of this lecture, Jez has managed to sway me to his side and has me considering booking out some contact microphones and seeing what I personally can achieve with them.
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