Hello fellow streamers.
I've been experimenting recently with a "time-lapse" logic for listening to durational field recordings, trying to condense long-term imperceptible changes into something we can more readily understand. I've been doing 24hr recordings and playing them through a Max patch to compress them to 1hr (using thousands of cross-faded fragments). The gradual exchanges between soundmakers (people / animals / weather ...) seems to be heightened by the montage. But I'm also noticing how the "constant" hum of the city evolves too: not so constant as it shifts in dominant pitch and color. I love the unrelenting "liveness" of open microphones so I'm interested in how these two nearly-opposite listening practices might combine.
I need 22 of these "1 hour = 1 day" segments. I have been leaving recorders "undercover" near my home in New York, USA, but I'm also reaching out to recordists and streamers to see if people are interested in contributing a 24hr field recording or permission to record their live-stream for a day. If so, I'd love to talk off-list.
Thanks!
-Zach Poff