As is often the case, the Junto idea is something to leap off of in the direction of what I would generally do when doing a Junto. Doing something simple/quick/trashy with something on hand that I don't otherwise use too much. And then philosophize too much about the whys and wherefores.
I bent or broke the Murch fourthworlding by:
--recording the source sound (the raking of a metal box fan's grill face, open air feedback of recording set up) in pretty much the same room in which it was later rerecorded at 4x speed playback
--never playing the ambient sound in sync with the original recording (obviating the whole approach meant to shift/recreate/4th world the ambient space)
--never playback any of the sounds (within the final recording) at any speed greater than .4 times original speed. And generally much slower than that.
I like the Murch approach and admire his craft and resourcefulness. But I really didn't want to emulate it. I heard the speed change part, and never meeting a varispeed playback I didn't like, went with that in a very generalized way. The ambient tracks were recorded of a 4x speed playback of the original sounds just as Murch would've done, but that's it.
Arguably, I otherworlded things. Nothing came out as it went in, no elements combined in a march step manner to subtly expand a seemingly naturalistic space. Nope.
Kept things simple so it could function in a short, roughly one minute duration. The sounds occur in a loose field that can more or less play out in the time.
Again quick & dirty: Recorded two mono original tracks on PPC iMac laptop running Audacity. Played them back at 4x speed running Gleetchlab out the headphone jack into a venerable boombox with line in jacks. Recorded that in stereo via an Android phone running Titanium Recorder. Combined tracks in loose non-sync/various slow non-reconstituting speeds via Gleetchlab on same laptop. Edited the selected take in Audacity.
More on this 229th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Fourth Worldizing: Use a favorite trick of legendary sound designer Walter Murch”) at:
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Thanks to Steve Ashby (ashbysounds.com) and Jakob Thiesen (jakobthiesen.flavors.me) for beta testing it.
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