Sound @ Flying Monkey Studio

I worked on a project with Craig Clark & Susan Valequette during Boise State’s “Christian Week” in October of last year. Craig recorded some video & Susan shot some stills of the Christian Club’s event. Any of the school’s clubs can request a week to display & inform the rest of the student body about the nature of their club.

The Christian Club brought in 3 full-size wooden crosses and mounted them on one side of the Quad sidewalk, near the library. On the other side of the walk they set up tables with info pamphlets & free bottles of water. The student body had to run this “gauntlet” to get across the quad. Now, I must say that the Christian Club was quite polite- not stopping people & pushing pamphlets in their hands, but the gauntlet was rather intimidating… Especially with the 3 giant wooden crosses!

So- I was recording some of the interactions and general ambient sounds when a man walked up to talk to a couple of the Club members. When he looked over at me this is what he remarked.

Recorder: Fostex FR2, Microphone: Sennheiser ME66 & CineCity Zeppelin with SoftFur

Field Recording

One of my first early morning sound hunting forays to a local pond taught me to pay attention to what is sometimes hard to see. I set up my microphone in a parabolic dish to record the sounds of the pond animals as they started their day. Once I got everything hooked up & turned on I heard a buzzing in my headphones. Thinking that I might have a short in my cables, or a malfunctioning microphone, I started checking each of my connections and swapping microphones. I turned the dish around to look at the microphone & the buzzing stopped. When I turned the dish back toward the pond the buzzing started again… I did this a couple of times until I thought to look through the clear dish to see what the microphone was pointing at: about 10 feet away was a hovering dragonfly. The buzzing sound turned out to be the wings!

Recorder: Sony PCM-D50, Mic: Sennheiser ME66 & Sony parabolic dish, Date: 08/30/2008

Field Recording Dragonfly, Nature