The process started with selecting the category of souds I’ll be using, for this a map was made picturing the flow of sound as given below:
the mapping of the structure to follow
A most important point was to keep the middle portion in the five minutes empty in the in the noinput layer and to have blend in and out of crackling sound of ice. The middle 20 seconds would be just the sound from the wavefarm recording I have recorded online from the broadcast station. But somehow it kept sounding odd while mixing and had to reduce the the empty bit but introducing more sounds of birds and howls into the mix.
Since this is the first time, I am independently using the set up, I did makes loads of mistakes and were not able to have long snippets. Many got monotonous even after trying to edit then in postproduction. It was solved by multiplying and reversing the tracks, but there were more internal feedback than I expected, leaving me with very few. By second time I was more in control and had better output, still there were technical issues because the output from left was just sine wave and it did interact with the right at some point. This did slow me down more than other layers.
Something interesting I got to experience was, trying to figure out the logistics of setting up the stem for all three layers separately and where to start from. I was not sure about how I have to start developing a multichannel work, but as time went by, I found the starting point to be the noinput layer to fix the final structure I can follow. This idea was short lived since I had to move strategy to be based on the live recording of the water body since I wanted to keep it in the same structure without much manipulation.
I have tried keeping the wavefarm track as raw as possible with necessary editing and enhancements to support make it a support system as well, such as made it more ambient. Using pen tool edit the pops has been both boon and a bane because it did help in making certain sound clear but certain been became a flop though I managed to have a straight line.