MEDP 160
March 19, 2015
Blog 2:
In doing
this exercise I found that my neighborhood is a lot noisier than I realized. I
walked through my neighborhood for about an hour and found that almost every 15
minutes cars honked. I must admit I couldn't close my eyes and walk for fear of
bumping into someone or something but I did zone out and take everything in. I
could even hear the exhaust fumes from the buses as they drove out of the bus
stops and people chattering and yelling at each other among other things. I
decided to enter the park in my neighborhood and take my sound-walk in there. One thing that stood out to me as I walked in
the evening during rush hour (between 5pm and 6pm) was clashes between the
sounds of the park and of the street, as I walked deeper into the park those clashes
seemed to fade. I heard nothing but trees swaying back and forth due to the wind.
The sound of the trees allowed me to lose myself in my thoughts. For a moment, I
felt the loudest thing I heard throughout my walk were my thoughts. The
textures of the sound from the buses and cars were heavy and dense; the sounds
of the wind sounded very strong, it felt and sounded like a ‘force’. The sound
of the trees in relation to the wind was like two forces coming together,
though the wind seemed to be stronger in force. But again, my thoughts seemed
to take over, it seemed as the loudest thing I could hear.
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