Final Field Recordings
For
this drift strategy I decided to use my own idea. I have a twenty sided dice and a lucky coin
so my plan is to flip the coin, heads being RIGHT and tails being LEFT. Therefore I use my coin for directions either
left or right. Then I roll the die and
whatever number I roll that is how many BUILDINGS I must walk pass and take a
recording. Seems pretty fun and
interesting…
Walk
out of my dorms and head to North Street.
Right.
3 buildings.
Right.
17 buildings.
Right.
11 buildings.
Left.
3 buildings.
Right.
18 buildings.
Right.
5 buildings.
Right.
2 buildings.
Left.
16 buildings.
Right.
9 buildings.
Sunday March 11th 5:08 p.m.
Gordon Park: Click here for a location on google maps: Google_Map_Link
Run time of this recording is 1:07.
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Sunday March 11th 5:46 p.m.
Beerline Trail: Click here for a location on google maps: Google_Map_Link
Run time of this recording is 1:35
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Sunday March 11th 6:37 p.m.
Corner of East Kenwood Blvd. and North Cambridge Ave.: Click here for a location on google maps: Google_Map_Link
Run time of this recording is 1:11
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During
my drift when I rolled the dice and moved a certain amount of buildings and
ended up near Gordon Park. I realize I had
plenty of recordings near a busy street so I decided to go to the park. They were some kids playing on the playground
with their parents watching and several dog walkers. The park is a very open area therefore it
would be a lo-fi environment. I kept my
distance from the people at the park and I set my microphones on one of the
swings. I clipped them to the swing so they
wouldn’t be shaky in my hands. I made
sure my volume was low so I wouldn’t get such loud noises. I tried playing around with the volume to
increase it when I heard talking; but lower it when a plane went overhead. Overall, I would say my park recording was my
most successful.
Over
the course of this project, I went on two drifts. The first one was short and very unsuccessful;
I call it my “test run”. I kept the microphones
too close to the subject and didn’t adjust the volume to manual. When I went out the second time I realized my
mistakes and attempted to fix them. I also
decided to go more off track me drift. What
I mean by that is, I still went to the general locations on my drift but I sought
out more obscure areas. I just felt this
would get better sounds and noises. This
was a learning experience for sure, and I feel like my recording for the rest
of this semester will be a lot more successful.
Hope everyone enjoys!
