My thought here was to select several of the recordings and play each from its own speaker in an unusual space. The space I chose was my attic. This isn’t a finished space and only has a small amount of floors (and thick insulation on the unfinished parts) and AC/heating ducts everywhere. I picked four recordings to use, in particular those by @tristan_louth_robins, @Gretchen_Jude, @ideaofnorth & @zoundsabar.
I identified the longest one and padded all the rest with silence at the beginning to make files of equal length. I converted each to mono and for one pair made them hard panned stereo. I placed 4 speakers around my recording (Zoom H5 with H6 mic capsule) which was on a tripod. The speakers were a stereo pair of computer speakers, another mono speaker intended to use with a phone, and a tablet with its speakers pointed appropriately. I started the recorder then hit play on the 3 devices.
The recording is trimmed and had a little fade in and out added. Additionally there were some bursts of noise presumably related to the mobile phone which I also removed. No EQ, effects or anything else were applied.
In retrospect the attic was an interesting physical space but not that interesting acoustically as the insulation and ducts everywhere make it quite dry. Additionally since one recording was quite a lot longer than the others it is playing alone for about 4 minutes. If I were to do it again I’d probably try and do a mix and time shift/fade in and out the parts to get a more coherent and tighter result then export stems and play in my chosen space.
