Surround Recording Ideas

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A list of ideas for things/objects/environemts that would be cool recorded in surround.

Please feel free to add to the end of the list ... put in your name for attribution of the idea.

  • Flock of pigeons in a large square, flying in or being frightened and flying out. (Etienne Deleflie)
  • Windmill farm. (Etienne Deleflie)
  • Walking through a field of crickets. (Kath Gadd)
  • Model airplanes. (Etienne Deleflie)
  • Moving Mike: Bungy Jump, Bike through a Tunnel, Ferris Wheel, Carousel. (crispin14)
  • Rock concert in middle of audience when the audience is singing. (Martin Leese)
  • In the middle of toy train layout. A really big one with several trains whizzing every which way. (Martin Leese)
  • Slot car racing set .. or a real-world formula 1 race(Etienne Deleflie)
  • Tennis match, with the microphone in the middle of the net. (Etienne Deleflie)
  • Beekeepers honey farm
  • a walk down a row of musican's practice rooms-university music building
  • strapped under/over a bus or cab on a 1 mile ride through manhattan
  • construction site (Etienne Deleflie)
  • a quite room containing a single fly, mosquito, or other buzzing insect. Put something near the mic to attract it. (Pink Floyd did something like this in stereo in the track "Grantchester Meadows" on their album Ummagumma.) (Martin Leese)
  • close miced barbershop harmony and battle rhyming (Sampo Syreeni)
  • John Cage's 4′33″, as heard from within the audience (Sampo Syreeni)
  • a soundtrack to a porn flick, depicting an orgy (Sampo Syreeni)
  • a live auction (Sampo Syreeni)
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