Binaural shoot with SWIMMInG in Bamburgh

I spent the bank holiday weekend up in Bamburgh, near Scotland, setting up 2 mixers, 8 speakers, 2 guitars, bass, my beatbox sampler, a little casio keyboard and some mics on the beach and in the dunes in the shade of Bamburgh castle, while sonic artist Dallas Simpson walked around us with microphones in his ears, director Simon Ellis filmed us, dogs barked, microlights buzzed past us and a beach full of holiday makers wondered what on earth we were up to.
What we were up to was doing our second binaural recording of one of our songs. The idea is this: We setup our equipment in a space, this time on the beach. We sit around 2/3 meters away from each other and channel our sounds through speakers set at different places around us. Dallas moves amongst us, passing each of us as we play and each of the speakers. He has tiny microphones in his ears which he uses to record the sound. The effect of this is that when the listener hears the recording back, they are in effect listening through his ears, hearing each soundsource becoming louder as he gets closer and experiencing the full 360degrees environment around Dallas' head. It is an amazing experience to hear sound this way.
You can read more about it on Dallas Simpson's website here

Meanwhile here's some pics

Beatboxing on the beach


Band setup on the beach and Dallas prepping for his sea walk


Simon Ellis - website here

Will update when the video has been made, meanwhile, here's the last binaural video we made of when we went to record our last single 'Sun In The Island' (visit our site here) in an observatory in Keilder, Northumberland in the snow