I went to Box Hill for wild camping and field recording. The fact that mechanical sounds – such as combustion engine, road noise and plane sound – got amplified easily while recording natural soundscapes and camping activities, annoyed me. I also did some field recording of birdsongs in Hackney Marshes. I borrowed a pair of LOM Basic UCHO from Kit room with Mix-Pre 6 for this recording trip. I would like to use natural soundscapes – nature making- along with the handmade recording.
For the recording of craftsmanship, I went through the field recording archive that contains field recording I did in past two years. I found some sounds of wild cooking and firewood cutting. Also the sound of starting a fire. I am planning to do more recordings of different crafting sounds. For example, I went to Hackney City Farm few months ago for a woodturning workshop. The sounds of shaving the wood were fascinating (I regreted a bit that I didn’t record the sounds of the workshop then). I was also searching in some archives, such as BBC sound effects, to look for different crafting sounds. I also tried to use YouTube, where a lot of people record their processes of making – pottery or wood making.