Drft 1 Assessment

1. A common occurrence in a cirt is traffic, and while part of my goal for the first drift would include these noises, I was frequently interrupted by cars while gathering smaller more precise sounds. Though I was only walking around with my DIY mics, I still had a moment where people would stop what they were naturally doing if they noticed my presence, thus cutting short some interesting sounds.

2. Before even starting to walk, I decided to simply sit at my start point and leave the recorder on and just listen for a good 30 minutes. Since the day I chose was a relatively nice day, and it was at about 3:30 PM, I got to enjoy a early fall day. The leaves had just started to fall, and were still bright red and orange turning the ground to fire where they landed. People were getting home from work, and kids were out of school. The wind was light but present enough to toss leaves around the ground in an amusing fasion. Another moment would have to be durring my night walk, where I got a simple joy out of people watching around the bars near me. Watching people recognise someone in the street from a car, and their back and forth was quite entertaining.

3. I want on the walk with a clear head, I was very ready to just simply take a walk and pay attention to my surroundings. I drive for a living so slowing down my speed of interaction with the environment was great. Things that really got to me were really just reminders of what the neighborhood is, it's inhabitants. Everything comes from those who live in the quite buildings. Realising that kids do live nearby and, when the sun is up, are quite apart of the neighborhood.

4. The best experience of the drift had to be the one I described in my second answer. As described above, stopping and relaxing with the little bit of fresh air was a much needed experience for me. Most of my classes make me stay indoors staring at a computer, while work keeps me busy long into the night. Watching the city actually in a positive light was a sight I also was not used to. The negatives always have a way of over shadowing the positives after the fact.