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FINAL PROJECT: Edited Piece #2 - Storytelling Through Sound

Field Audio Recording Final Project:Ode to a Turbine

Listen to my final edited piece HERE 

          The most notable and obvious challenge concerning the recording of a wind farm is without fail going to be wind noise. Upon my first visit to the Rolling Hills Wind Farm I was not nearly equipped with enough wind protection to gather the recordings necessary to capture my environment. When I returned to the wind farm for a second time I made sure to obtain a more robust and effective way to block wind noise while getting a good clean recording. While my stereo microphone was able to get a wide image of the wind farms ambient environment it was the shotgun mic in a wind blimp that gathered the most successful and powerful recordings. Utilizing the tools and techniques I had learned throughout the semester I gathered as many at length recordings as I could of the various scale, detail and orientations of the wind turbines themselves and the surrounding ambient environment. I also staged a few recorded moments such as my car driving by, though I was lucky enough to capture a truck and another car as they barreled by, and I got close-up recordings of my crunchy footsteps on the ground of chopped down corn stalks. The staged recordings were recorded on a whim but also felt instinctual when I captured them. As I organized my dozens and dozens of recordings, fumbled through using Audition to get things edited, processed and in order and tried to make sense of it all in the timeline I found it difficult to see a final sound story. But as I worked with the material more in the multitrack session of Audition and rewatched tutorials about workflow in the program itself I found that one day everything clicked, I found my stride and with that came a clear idea of how I wanted to lay out all my sounds. After several edits, a handful of helpful critiques and  multiple exported versions of my sound story I feel I have successfully captured the mysterious, lulling, yet massive and loud environment of one of the largest wind farms in the state of Iowa.    



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