This is a recording of me washing my hands in a sink. I recorded this piece on the eve of our last day on Marcus Leadley's Field Recording class at Goldsmith's. 

This is the first in a series of water-related activity or ambient recordings called Aqua Lumina. The subtitle 'Lavabo' is meant to echo the "the ritual washing of a celebrant's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist." 

EQUIPMENT: £30 Movo VXR40 supercardoid condenser shotgun on Zoom 4HN. Mic mounted on a stand. This cheap mic seems to punch above its weight in clarity. For this recording, I set range setting at normal (close).

AQUA LUMINA: LAVABO (by Ishmael Annobil)

Bees - live recording of bees arriving/departing their nest (with passing plane and some birds)
Hive - recorded at The Hive installation at Kew
Fakes - bees recreated on a synth.

Bees - Hive - Fakes

This is an unedited recording of walking down the shingle beach from at Walmer, East Kent down to the shoreline.  You can hear the different grades of single as the walker crunches down to the shoreline.  This walk takes up half the track.  The remainder is simply listening to the sea.  
Technical Bit: The recording was made on a Sony PCM-D100 portable  with in-built microphones set to ORTF (which helps capture the breadth of the seascape, especially on headphones).

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