Drift 2 Maps

Here is my map from Drift 2:
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Drift Area

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Drift 1 Maps

Here is my maps that I used for Drift 1:
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Barking Dog


Kids Playing


Musical Tires



Sewer Drains


Spring Day


Drift Area

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Sound Walk

I never realized how many different and unique sounds are all around me until I stopped and listened to them. The sounds that are made with the simplest movements are really interesting. I heard many different things when walking around campus and HERE is the path I took. As a class we stopped in the lower level of the Union and plugged our ears for five minutes and then unplugged them and closed our eyes and just listened; HERE is a map of what I heard all around me.

Along with my maps here is a list of all the sounds I heard on my walk:
Foot steps
Door slamming
Vents whistling/humming
Door creaking open
Door squeaking
Wind blowing
Car motor humming
Car driving by
Bus driving by
Bus motor humming
Vents sucking
Heaters humming
Birds chirping
Computers humming
Exhaust fans sucking
Laughing
Voices
Keys jingling
Velcro ripping
Phone ringing
Digital beeps
Pen clicking and tapping
Coins clanging
Elevator bell ringing
Gum popping

Here is my answers to the questionnaire:

1. Were you able to find places and spaces where you could really listen?

Yes, I sat in the lower level of the union and listened very carefully to all the sounds around me.

2. Was it possible to move without making a sound?

Only if I moved extremely carefully I couldn’t hear any noise even though there probably was some.

3. What happened when you plugged your ears, and then unplugged them?

It was very interesting to go from silence to suddenly hearing everything around you it made me hear things I wouldn’t normally hear.

4. What types of sounds were you able to hear?
1. Piano playing
2. Footsteps
3. keys jingling
4. people talking
5. change rattling
6. a pen clicking
7. soda machine being refilled
8. a digital phone ringing
9. doors opening and closing
10. book bags hitting the floor
5. Were you able to differentiate between sounds that had a recognizable source and those sounds you could not place?

Yes when I would close my eyes I could tell which sounds were footsteps or which were keys jingling and sounds like that. At the same time there were many sounds that I wasn’t sure where coming from or what was making them.

6. Were you able to differentiate human, mechanical, and natural sounds?

Yes, I was able to tell which sound came from human or mechanical or natural sounds.

7. Were you able to detect subtleties, changes, or variations in the everpresent drone?

Sometimes, for example when someone would walk on the tile floor and then move to the carpet I would tell the change in sounds.

8. Extremely close sounds? Sounds coming from very far away?

Both the footsteps were right next to me were as the soda machine being refilled was down the hall.

9. Were you able to intervene in the urban landscape and create your own sounds by knocking on a resonant piece of metal, activating wind chimes, etc.?

Along my walk I found a quite spot and I was rubbing my finger along the spine of my notebook which made a plucking noise.

10. Do you feel you have a new understanding or appreciation of the sounds of our contemporary landscape/cityscape?

Yes very much so I didn’t realize what was actually going on around me.

11. How do you think your soundwalk experience will affect your practice as a media artist, if at all?

I think it will be a great help for me to be able to get a better understanding of what to listen for.