Field Audio Recording

Audio Scavenger Hunt Recording 1 - listen HERE 9/24 - 6:30am Milwaukee Rotary Centennial Arboretum - woods, calm environment Zoom H6 - XY mic capsules at 90-degrees then rotated to 120-degree capsules This was a particularly clean recording in a calm section of woods, above you can hear two distinct birds which were captured clearly, as the capsules are rotated wider you hear more background traffic and a helicopter enters the recording. Recording 2 - listen HERE 9/23 - 8:30pm Atwater Park - low to moderate traffic, very windy Zoom H6 - XY mic capsules at 120-degrees on a stand, two NT3 mics handheld pointed in the opposite direction from the Zoom mics. The NT3 mics isolated and captured a few pedestrians walking, you can clearly here keys jingling on one person as they walk by.  The was quite gusty so the mics would occasionally get hit with wind noise even with sufficient protection.  If I were to record in this kind of a windy envi...

I took a morning stroll with my coffee through Pumping Station Park for Assignment #1. What seemed like a quiet soundscape ended up yielding dynamic sound clashes between the urban bustle, sounds of nature, and human/animal interactions. Two pages of field notes documenting in the moment aural perspective. Soundmap from Exercise #3 - refer to the first photo for perspective. Dog in cool blue bleachers.  Field location from Exercise #2. 

The sound of sailing has always stuck with me, even though I've only been on a proper sailboat a few times in my life reminiscing on the experience comes to me in sound. The crash of the waves against the side of the boat as it cuts through the water, the billowing flaps of the giant sails as they search for that perfect gust of wind, the sharp clank of metal hardware battering against the beams and posts of the sailboat. There's also something very peaceful about not hearing an engine roaring over the soundscape of the water and its surrounding environment, so clearly hearing the seagulls squawking above head and noticing how different the wind sounds out on the water as opposed to on land, no imposing structures to impede the wind from blowing freely.