I walked around the beaches, arcades, shops and streets
of the Island, and realised that it is never
a silent place, even in the most remote areas.
I developed the idea of a day in the life of the area, and drew up what
I guess would be called a soundboard of the story. I
wanted to explore the contradictions between the natural and human sounds, how
those natural sounds have to compete hard and to give a sense of travelling through
the sounds.
I went through a whole series of struggles with
equipment. My first recorder broke down,
and I bought a replacement. It took a
long time to get this to perform in the way that I wanted. For a while, all my recordings were coming
out with hissing, until I worked out a good combination of file format,
recording level, noise reduction, and combination of mike systems. I could not get Premiere Pro to behave as I
wanted, so switched to GarageBand on my husband’s Mac computer. It was at that point that his machine
decided to give up the ghost, and I began to feel that this project was really
cursed. Suffice to say, he got a
replacement and I finally achieved the recordings that I wanted. Such are the joys of technology!
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