background image  Stereo mixing using ViMiC in Logic    I’m
currently making a stereo mix of the sound for At the Zoo. The
work, a collaboration between Karen Kipphoff and myself, is
going to be part of an upcoming video screening.  The original 6
channel version that I made for the ICCI360 festival was
spatialised using ViMiC in a way that was custom-tailored to the
particular loudspeaker setup (number of speakers, positions and
size of the space). This time I am using two virtual
microphones, set up as ORTF, and rendering. That makes for a
stereo image that will be much more robust to loudspeaker setups
of varying sizes without needing to be constantly re-rendered.
The sound track is made up from two layers. One layer consists
of six similar voices blending into a joint texture evolving
over time, while the other layer is subdivided into three
layers, each containing two voices. Each of the three layers
comes and goes, creating a joint texture with different timbral
colors weaving in and out of each other