Despite her “clapped” phone having a cracked screen, she is immediately impressed by the quality of the audio she records: “So crisp it’s amazing!” “And then the road gap cuz you’ll hear the tires hitting the dirt.”Īs the riders rocket down a narrow and bumpy mountainside path, Odubote fits her slightly abused smartphone into the MV88+ Video Kit. “There’s a place on the track called Waterfall Edge, that’ll be a good one,” he says. Odubote asks competitor Kaos Seagrave for a few tips where she could capture unique sounds for her song along the course. “The most important is probably the actual airplane.” “It was almost like a buffet of sounds – I had so many things to choose from,” explains Larrington-Nelson.
Of course, it’s only when you begin to actively hunt sounds at an event like an air race that you realize how prevalent they really are. “Skaters weaving through a course at record speed, cheering crowds, the split-second swerves, kicks, grunts, jumps and falls – these are the moments that make an experience truly exciting.” However, when you think about it, the live footage would be nothing without audio,” says Paul Crognale, Global Marketing Manager for Musician & Consumer Audio at Shure. “Sound at sporting events is often taken for granted. What they created from those experiences is now the Soundscapes project. Three up-and-coming artists received the brand new MV88+ Video Kit, so they could craft original songs from field recordings collected at sporting events around the globe.īesides Larrington-Nelson in Indianapolis, Anz traveled to Wales for the Red Bull Hardline mountain bike race and HAAi went to Japan to see the Red Bull Crashed Ice skating competition. But what exactly does adventure sound like? Shure teamed up with Red Bull to find out. A rising star in the UK grime music scene, she has come to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Red Bull Air Race to harvest sounds for an exclusive track.įrom spectacular air races to daring downhill duels, Red Bull is synonymous with sporting adventure. Mali Larrington-Nelson is a producer from South London releasing songs under the name Shy One. “That’s Martin Šonka, the pilot I met earlier, who told me to stand at this point of the track to record that exact moment,” she says. A woman holds her microphone high into the sky before breaking into a broad smile. The plane zooms past in the blink of an eye and begins to emit a high-pitched whine as it starts a dizzying climb towards the heavens. What does adventure sound like? Shure gave three up-and-coming artists the new MV88+ Video Kit, so they could craft original songs from audio recorded at Red Bull sporting events. Red Bull Soundscapes: Making Music with Extreme Sports Audio