Project 3 Video, Last Sound Trek Strategies - 11/23/06

I plan to return the location outlined in my last two entries on Thanksgiving Day to collect some ambient sound with an improvised barrier microphone. I didn't feel the need to create anything lasting, so I looked around my house and found this great structure from a box that my hard drive was shipped in. It's a rigig inflated packing barrier. The grooves between baffles hold the mics in position. I taped them in place and I used an old small tee-shirt to cover the entire structure. Super light. super quiet as long as nothing touched it. Wind noise was not a problem from my porch on a brezzey day. The stereo image in headphones was very wide in testing.

Soundscape #1 : Ambient sound from the area surrounding Pere Maquette park on Thanksgiving Day.

Soundscape #2: Ambiaent sound from the Kilbourne bridge.

Both soundscapes relate to my search for conflict, order vs. disorder in the environment of and surrounding the park. This has become, more and more, my main focus for this project.