Worldizing, an amazing sound design concept created by Walter Murch. Watch the video to know all about that process. There are at Filmsound one interesting article about Worldizing; Walter said:
George (Lucas) and I took the master track of the two-hour radio show with Wolfman Jack as DJ and played it back on a Nagra in a real space – a suburban backyard. I was fifty-or-so-feet away with a microphone recording that sound onto another Nagra, keeping it in sync and moving the microphone kind of at random, back and forth, as George moved the speaker through 180 degrees. There were times when microphone and speaker were pointed right at each other, and there were other times when they were pointed in completely opposite directions. So that was a separate track. Then, we did that whole thing again.
When I was mixing the film, I had three tracks to draw from. One of them was what you might call the “dry studio track” of the radio show, where the music was very clear and sharp and everything was in audio focus. Then there were the other two tracks which were staggered a couple of frames to each other, and on which the axis of the microphone and the speakers was never the same because we couldn’t remember what we had done intentionally.
Sometimes, Wolfman Jack would be on axis on one track, but he would be off axis on the other track. I was able to blend those three tracks to get the right amount of atmosphere. I could make transitions from a live, very present sound to something that sounded like it was very distant and bouncing off many buildings. I could create a sense of movement too – hence, the moving microphones.
Video vía usoproject
I like the “worldizing” idea, though I think it’s hard to argue that it’s anything new. I remember reading about bands like Pink Floyd recording playback of their own tracks at the opposite ends of large concrete water pipes. Anything to get a new, interesting, and far-out sound.
I have an extra pair of car speakers in the basement, and I’ve been trying to think of something to do with them. Suddenly, the idea of a portable worldizing rig seems not only interesting, but doable as well. I love playing with sound, so I think this will go on my list of projects.
Whats the name of that movie which appears in this video?
THX 1138 by George Lucas ;)
car speakers should always be a three way system composted of woofer,mid-range and tweeter “-“