The hydrophone was quite fun to work with. The main issue I had was wasting water, so that reduced the amount of opportunities I could record. This was also the only time I repeated an audio clip, as I didn’t want to record for as long as the However, I still managed to get some good sounds, although in future I would think ahead and plan my recordings to coincide with cooking for instance, if I needed to boil some water and wanted to record the water pouring in the pan.
I also used a clip recorded with the contact microphone, as I wanted to capture the sound of the water going through the detergent compartment of the washing machine. This made for an interesting recording, and I actually found that water travels through there a lot more often than I expected, so managed to get quite a bit of useable sound.
There were sections of the fish tank recording were you can hear talking from outside the tank. To begin with, I took it out, but then I decided to leave it, because my first idea for the water, was to make it seem like the listener was underwater, and the muffled, deadened dialogue that you feel you should be make to make out fits in with that.
The track ended up as quite a bit shorter than I would have liked, but I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing, as if I had tried to forcibly make it longer, it would have been incredibly boring and drawn out. As it is, it may well be switched off half way through!