With this video of London Waterloo Bridge, we were to create another ambience, as the astronaut in the spaceship, however, instead of creating our own synths for this artefact, we used a different technique. This involved in us going outside of uni and using a handy recorder that is usually used to record outdoor settings with a windscreen muff that helped when it was windy. It was convenient, since we could just walk outside near the roundabout and just record the cars, buses and motorbikes passing by. As well as these busy areas, I also recorded in less busier areas, such as a quiet park. I wasn’t picky and didn’t really have anything in mind when first going outside to record and whatever was happening in the area, I recorded it – like pigeons, helicopter, cars beeping and police sirens. London is generally a busy city, so I didn’t think about specifically that one area of the bridge. With all of these recordings, I layered them on top of each other, which gave the impression that there is traffic. However, instead of just having all the recordings playing at the same on top of one another, I dissected each recording so that each event would happen at different times, such as the helicopter and the car beep. There was one recording in which I recorded for longer, which is what I used for the noted ‘fills’, so that there was no empty space. There were other aspects that I could have thought of, such as construction and possibly the crashing waves of the Thames.
