NMP 11 - Anchoring Audio

I’ve borrowed a sound recorder in a bid to improve audio quality as best I can, used the on camera microphone when I was shooting the “Reading” moving piece, think I fell a little lucky because of the proximity of the subject matter and the quietness of the house

I may have got away with it or indeed it was a fluke or happy accident as they are more commonly known..

Just getting to grips with it and having recorded a soundtrack from the boot of the car for the next piece which is going to be called “Commute” and will be on my journey to and from work in the winter months… do you think the name gave it away.

Audio is not my strongest point, all those years in the music industry and never really got to grips with it, I know when something sounds ok and when something is loud (remember the bass bins on the Prodigy tour in the late 90’s giving me a slight bruise..) but I’m not sure what I’m listening for, little background noise and the such like I don’t tend to get distracted by so this may be an interesting journey

Think I can already hear the difference but feel that I’m missing something, maybe it’s a bit like visual literacy maybe there is audio literacy in understanding what you are listening for or maybe it’s even more unique than that, a shared sound experience is different to a shared visual experience possibly????