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Flying – A story in quadraphonic sound

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A quadraphonic listening system uses 4 speakers arranged in a square, facing in towards the centre where the listener is. That is easily achieved. But recording in quadraphonic is not so simple. The choices for microphones, how many are used, and how they are arranged are quite large. And upon listening back the sound image feels very different depending on how it is done. The decision to record in quadraphonic set me on a technical path that had me immersed for weeks trying out different microphone capsules hooked up to various parts of my clothing such as my jacket lapels, collars, and eventually with some success stitched inside the monkey cap on my head. I wanted to try and achieve the feeling of a first person exploration of a city space but the environments I was in were impossible to control. So there I was strapped with microphones, fingers crossed while going through security at the metro stations, walking or taking cycle rickshaws through gullies and evaluating the results in my studio while developing a story. Flying is the result of this process.



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