Thursday, July 17, 2008

Surprises

One surprise I encountered during my drift was discovering a jet plane sound that I didn’t know I had recorded. I was happy to hear it because I had recorded another plane and I then planned to use them both in my Drift One project.

Another surprise was that the recording of the woman at the bus stop, which at first seemed like it could be an ethical issue, turned out to be much less of an issue than I had thought. I am relived in a way, because I really liked the recording, but didn’t know whether it was appropriate to use it.

I also found it surprising that to really capture a space, or attempt to capture sound in a space, it takes a lot of time and patience. I thought that I would go on an incredibly long walk in 4 hours, but I ended up not going nearly as far as I thought. Being caught up in the recording made me slow down my usually fast pace and focus on the details and wait for sounds to happen.

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