Exercise 1
I start the walk from outside my apartment door. We all have a private entrance so it leads right to the outdoors facing highway 100 on Ryan Road. As I step out, I steer clear of that direction and head south towards the woods behind the buildings. Along the way, I observe the following sounds:
Birds singing, geese honking, crickets chirping, cars passing, wind chimes, the breeze through the trees, the "flips" of my flip flops, my keys jingling, the generators running outside of each apartment building, and last but not least, when I settle down - dogs barking by the window.
When I settle down to a spot near the woods, I notice that there are two types of crickets chirping - one with a constant buzzing to my left - low and quiet but consistent - while the other chirps in a rhythmic beat with a chirp, beat, chirp, beat. The second cricket would stop after awhile while the other continued on.
One sudden event that occurred and abruptly disrupted the harmony of the soundscape was a sudden movement through the trees in the woods. A bird abruptly flapped its wings and flew away. It sounded like it reacted to some movement within the trees. As it did so, the singing of a bird had gotten gradually louder like a crescendo and then stopped while a smaller bird kept chirping in its place.
Highest pitch - birds - inconsistent/intermittent
Lowest pitch - generators running - low, consistent - abrupt stop and the sound of cars passing on the highway take its place
The birds and crickets seem to "sing" in harmony in a continuous song throughout this observation.
Exercise 2
Dominant sounds: Engine running, geese's high pitch honking above me in a big group, loud screech of a passing motorcycle - these dominant sounds take over one after the other as it passes through
Soft Sounds: Breeze blowing and passing by my ear, the branches and leaves that rustle from the breeze, the hum of the traffic after-breeze on the highway as they pass through, leaves rolling on the street
Route: I started from the backyard of my apartment complex near the woods, heading away from the sound of traffic on highway 100 and continued to walk along the woods before turning north for a different soundscape. This gave me a variety of soundscape range.
Exercise 3
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