Final Field Recordings

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!