Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Drift Assessment

I did not come across anything that aggravated me too much other than the wind was blowing on and off throughout a lot of my sound clips and having just a little bit of wind sound is enough to turn it in to a weaker clip, I knew that my church choir sound would have been even cooler and more peaceful without the little bit of wind. I did get frustrated with the soldering but I guess that can be considered technology related, so my only stress was the whether could have been better. Like I was saying before I was feeling at ease or peaceful during the church choir singing but only at the time of recording, when I listened later I found myself worrying about the wind. There wasn’t too many instances that I would call unusual peacefulness, usually when I walk outdoors I am listening to nature and feel at ease with my mind, I can think more have ideas bounce off each other in my head. I do not own an iPod either so it is always common.
I was surprised with a lot of my sounds. When I went on the walk I knew I had two pretty good sound bites I was excited to hear: the water fountain and the church choir. But when it came to listen and edit all of them I heard much more levels and layers of sounds. For example when I was recording the “Kickin the Can to Sweet Child of Mine” bit I didn’t even recognize the dog bark that comes in at the end or how cool bus air breaks sound from a distance from the water fountain bit, it really added to the contrast and levels it out somewhat. My favorite place was the church choir voices, it just came in so soft and I walked up to it like it was drawing me in. I guess this had an affect on me because I was exploring my surroundings for the first time. I just moved here this semester so walking a rout that is different from my normal routine walk to campus was eye opening and ear opening

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