I went to few places to test out the Bela recoding kit, one of them is St Mary’s Churchyard (a park near LCC). I used my stereo pair mic Earsight Standard made by Immersive Soundscape and my Zoom F3. The field recorder is used as mic amplifier and the send to Bela thought line output. The recoding experience is fascinating. The sensation is weird where I was in the space that I very used to its soundscape: the busy traffic, the infrastructure, the train, etc. But listen through Bela, I feel like I was in different space. I was there but not really. The sound is familiar yet alienated. Even in the same small park, the spot I choose to peg my sensor in are completely different. Of course, it can be because of the position of my mics changed, but also there is more things to change the sound I am listening to.
To contrast different soundscape of outdoor space, I went back to LCC to find some plants to record with as it have to rely on the soil to make it works. The bridge in the library have one of the most interesting sound. The reverberation in there already huge, and with the reverb that added in, it create a weird sonic space. The indoor space also have different temperature, hence, the texture of the receding are completely different.