Multitracking on Premiere

I have made a 20 minute track and successfully exported it onto my MP3 players. When I listened to it I noticed a lot of rough transitions, repetitions and volume problems.
Re-edit, take it onsite and do another walk.

Technology update Adobe Premiere

I have had two tutorials with Boris on Adobe Premiere. I will be using this for multitracking.
I have now made a series of recordings on and off site, both normal stereo and binaural. My next task is to put my tracks together.

Sagada Ritual Hanging Cemetery

A fascinating glimpse of other people's burial rituals!

http://www.weirdasianews.com/2010/11/28/hanging-coffins-sagada-ancient-tradition/

More Tutorial References from Sean

Sound as Immersive Theatre

Fierce festival 2011: 

Symphony for a missing room at BMAG

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/mar/24/fierce-review



"Most extraordinary of all is Lundahl & Seitl's Symphony of a Missing Room, at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. In this exhilarating immersive piece, six people at a time are blindfolded, given headphones, and then invited to have a private dream in a public space. It's like falling into your own personal fairytale, finding that secret garden, or going through the wardrobe into Narnia. You are seduced by the gentle voice in your ear, and by the hands that flutter around you like birds. Yet never for a moment do you feel out of control – it is, after all, your own imagination that gives this work its wild power."


http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/tag/bmag/

 'Symphony from a Missing Room'

http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/naimakhan-6622/lundahl-seitl-on-rupert-sheldrake-and-the-relationship-between-science-and-performance-5871/

"After a few minutes with theatre makers Martina Seitl and Christer Lundahl, it's clear that they're asking big questions about existence, presence and how to challenge our perceptions. Einstein, Newton and Bruce Damer (who coined the term Avatar) all pop up in conversation quite frequently, but today they want to tell me about the work of Rupert Sheldrake."

Sigur Ros: 

Icelandic band who combine sad melancholic, atmospheric music with video and drawing. An evocation of a sense of place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrq7ffdV1ro&feature=related

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Nefernegger.

A Ghost story about Highgate Cemetery
There is a lot of historical detail about Highgate and Victorian funeral customs which I found very useful as well as enjoying a 'good read'.

Tony Harrison 'V'

Reference from Sean: A poem by Tony Harrison.  'V'
He describes the decay and vandalism of his local graveyard but it is a metaphor for the disintegration and destruction of working class society by the ruling political classes.
I plan to use some of the verses; slightly amended to make it more relevant. 


http://plagiarist.com/poetry/5618/

Walk 4 Key Hill

A Timed Binaural Recording

• Recording footsteps and ambient sound.
• I want my walk to be immersive but to have some structure.
• The MP3 player can be paused but will this interfere with the immersive experience?
• Non -binaural recordings were made at appropriate points:

                           Entrance
                           Site of the Chapel
                           Chamberlains Grave
                           Common Graves
                           Catacombs, experimental recording in niche.

The fully restored main gates

Turn left along one of the main paths

The toppled grave stones

Muslim grave?

Alfred Bird Family Grave

Grave of Alfred Bird

Gillott Family Grave

Over the Catacombs

Joseph Chamberlain's Grave beyond the rubbish bin

Walk 3 Guided Cemetery Walks Sunday 4th March

The Friends of Key Hill and Warstone Lane Cemeteries : monthly tours

I recorded the tours (not Binaurally) for information.
The guide was extremely informative and interesting however it confirmed my desire not to recreate a similar experience.

William Murphy a preacher who died for his beliefs

Alfred Bird Family Grave

General view

General view

General view

General view

Tolkien Family Grave, JRR Tolkien is buried in Oxford

One of the few remaining carved niches on the Catacombs

Unusually Ornate Grave

Chamberlain Family Grave

George Dawson the preacher