Thoroughly enjoyed this one Mark, bravo! A good friend of mine found a creaking gate the other day and asked me "have you ever performed a gate out in the field?"
In her case and in yours, how could you not! I appreciate that you tend to stay away from performative field recordings but theres no way I would pass up playing that fire door. So I'm glad you gave in and performed the door. This recording is authentic to me and I can hear you listening. That's what makes it musical in my opinion.
The other thing you touched on that interested me was adding music to your field recordings. I have done this with a little success on my album Sounds from the Birch Forest. The field recordings are more like interludes as apposed to being layered over the the tracks. My intention was using the field recordings as a narrative. I also tend to feel that a good field recording should be left alone. But I do want to explore pairing music and field recordings. Every once in awhile I give it a shot but nothing has come of it yet.
I have tried/attempted performing with found objects. I used a couple of contact mics to mic up a table and then performed the table with the objects on it. If that makes sense. A work in progress with that one but in those recordings I did layer a field recording over the top of them in post production. I was happy with the results on that. If you scroll down on my page I have a substack post about this endeavor.
Anyways enough about me (ha). Great post and topics to think and chat about!
Thoroughly enjoyed this one Mark, bravo! A good friend of mine found a creaking gate the other day and asked me "have you ever performed a gate out in the field?"
In her case and in yours, how could you not! I appreciate that you tend to stay away from performative field recordings but theres no way I would pass up playing that fire door. So I'm glad you gave in and performed the door. This recording is authentic to me and I can hear you listening. That's what makes it musical in my opinion.
The other thing you touched on that interested me was adding music to your field recordings. I have done this with a little success on my album Sounds from the Birch Forest. The field recordings are more like interludes as apposed to being layered over the the tracks. My intention was using the field recordings as a narrative. I also tend to feel that a good field recording should be left alone. But I do want to explore pairing music and field recordings. Every once in awhile I give it a shot but nothing has come of it yet.
I have tried/attempted performing with found objects. I used a couple of contact mics to mic up a table and then performed the table with the objects on it. If that makes sense. A work in progress with that one but in those recordings I did layer a field recording over the top of them in post production. I was happy with the results on that. If you scroll down on my page I have a substack post about this endeavor.
Anyways enough about me (ha). Great post and topics to think and chat about!
Thanks Sean, great to hear your thoughts on this, I'll go and have a listen and a read...