Joel Augustine Drift Atlas

Drift Two Strategies

2009-05-08T12:30:00.000-07:00

For my Drift Two walk, I will be starting at the 26 hundred block on Maryland. This will be at the corner of Park and Maryland. From this point I am just going to start walking in a directing that I have not been to yet. This means taking allies, streets, and going places where I have not been yet. The hope in this is to find things I would not otherwise have found and to explore. I think this will also help me with the recording because I do not want to film things that I have already seen. I chose this approach because in drift one I new most of the area that my drift strategy lead me into. But with drift two, this open approach will suite my project better with the opportunity to explore places I have not seen.

For this walk I am going to take snap shots of my entire walk. And from these snap shots I am going to create a a film from my experience. I am only go to take pics from my waist level, not seeing what I'm taking a picture of or I am going to point down at the ground to take the pictures. I feel that not being able to look at the scene or composition allows accidents to happen and allows me to take pictures of anyone or anything with out them knowing. In drift one I was shy to record strangers conversations and I feel the same way with taking there pictures. This way them not knowing it make the process much easier to control. I got this idea from a New York City photographer who uses a range finder camera take pictures at his waist level and later develops the film to see if he captured anything. I was inspired to do this by Gary Winnagrand and Lee Freelander, who are two photographers that do this technique.

Drift Two

2009-05-08T12:28:00.000-07:00

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Drift Two Map

2009-05-08T12:21:00.000-07:00

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Drift One

2009-05-08T12:16:00.000-07:00

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Drift One Map

2009-05-08T12:15:00.001-07:00

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Sound Walk 1 Area Map

2009-02-14T15:51:00.000-08:00

On our first walk, our lap ground went out of Mitchell hall and went north, and turned left past the music building. Then heading west we took another left past the music building heading south toward the union. With in the union we went past the food court, and made our way up the the 3rd floor and then then came back down. Once we were down on the ground floor, we meet in our group again, and took time to do our sound body map. After we finished our maps, we headed out of the union towards Kenwood blvd. Heading east down Kenwood, we turned left on the walk way heading back toward Mitchell Hall. Once everyone got back into the room is when the walk ended.

Sound Body Map

2009-02-11T15:33:00.000-08:00

Sound Walk One: 10 Questions

2009-02-06T11:26:00.000-08:00

1.Were you able to find places and spaces where you could really listen? Yes, anywhere I went I could really listen, you just need to focus on what your surroundings are, and not be oblivious to it.
2.Was it possible to move without making a sound? It was impossible to move without making a noise, cause either you can hear yourself breath, or with wet shoes you can not help but to make a noise while you walk.
3.What happened when you plugged your ears, and then unplugged them? When I plug my ears it tunes out the environment around you, and you mostly just hear your pulse and breathing patterns.
4.What types of sounds were you able to hear? List them. The sounds are listed on my sound log which is in the same blog.
5.Were you able to differentiate between sounds that had a recognizable source and those sounds you could not place? For the most part all the sounds that I heard were recognizable, and could record what they were coming from.
6.Were you able to differentiate human, mechanical, and natural sounds? Yes, I think these were the easiest sounds to differentiate from. Each one has a specific kind of sound, and I think we are so use to the different sounds that each kind makes that it’s easier for us to pick them apart.
7.Were you able to detect subtleties, changes, or variations in the everpresent drone? When we stopped and listened in the Union, the overbearing drone was hard to over hear anything else, but once in while you would hear a distinct ground or person that was either laughing or coughing.
8.Extremely close sounds? Sounds coming from very far away? Sound which were closer to you are much easier to pick out what they are, and how they are made. But also it depends on how loud the sound it. If it is farther away and makes a loud enough noise that would also be able to be recognized, unless it echo through the landscape. In that case it would be hard to detect where it originally came from.
9.Were you able to intervene in the urban landscape and create your own sounds by knocking on a resonant piece of metal, activating wind chimes, etc.? As I was walking I would either be clicking my pen, or scraping my feet against the ground to make a combination of sounds that went together.
10.Do you feel you have a new understanding or appreciation of the sounds of our contemporary landscape/cityscape? I think that this activity was just a beginning for a new understanding of the sounds around us. But I think as these projects go on my understanding of the sounds around me will grow.
11.How do you think your soundwalk experience will affect your practice as a media artist, if at all? I think it is just another element to be aware of, along with the composition, texture, depth, and all the other things a media artist should be aware of. If they can get the same effect in composition, but get a better effect in sound, then that nature sound should be sought out.

Sound Log Notes

2009-02-06T10:57:00.000-08:00

SOUND WALK 1 SOUNDS

1.) Paper in note books turning

2.) Shoes scraping floor

3.) Shoe squick

4.) Vents

5.) Wind Jackets Rubbing

6.) Talking

7.) Water Running

8.) Door Closing

9.) Walking up Steps

10.) Doors Opening

11.) Heels clank on ground

12.) Fan Blowing

13.) Door Squick

14.) Laughter

15.) Bag Rolling

16.) Helicopter

17.) Talking

18.) Shoes scraping on ground

19.) Forgein Language

20.) Electric Golf Cart

21.) Vents

22.) Paper blowing in wind

23.) Velcro

24.) Zipper

25.) Gate

26.) Oven Beeper

27.) Soda Machine

28.) Ice Falling

29.) Talking surrounding

30.) Clapping of hands

31.) Feet climbing steps

32.) Doors closing

33.) Paper in note books turning

34.) Feet climbing steps

35.) Sniffling

36.) Keys

37.) Cell phone

38.) Walkie talkie

39.) Buses

40.) Brakes squiling

41.) Engines at rest

42.) Music bass in car

43.) Liscense plate vibrating

44.) Feet scraping ground

45.) Bus

46.) Engine Accelorating

47.) Car Horn Beep

48.) Talking

49.) Caugh

50.) Bus Brakes

51.) Hydralics

52.) Feet climbing steps

53.) Coins in a pocket

54.) Keys

55.) Bike tires rolling

56.) Bike gears shifting

57.) Feet climbing steps

58.) Talking

59.) Pen clicking

60.) Shoes scraping ground

61.) Vent