After sitting with the photograph for a bit, I experienced a sense of familiarity, along with more abstract qualities I’d attribute to the space like ‘barebones utility’ and ‘modern industrial building patina’.
I pictured a hallway in a remote part of a building where utility systems might reside—ie HVAC, boilers, water heaters, laundry machines, freight elevators, etc. I also imagined an eclectic commercially-zoned building with rehearsal rooms, maker spaces, and similar. Some tenants might be living there, despite the building not being residentially-zoned, and there’d be a mix of life and work sounds.
Then I layered recordings together, and used basic convolution reverb, panning, filtering, and gentle limiting to create a simple soundscape to accompany the picture I’d imagined.
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