Drift Strategy

I have had many plans when it came to my strategy for my Drift 1 assignment. My very original plan was to do it in an area I found not too far off the UWM campus. It was a forest type area where my plan was the walk straight until I hit a tree and then I would make the first turn that I saw available. This idea plummeted when I found out that I would be in my home town of Plymouth, MN for a couple of weekends where I would have much more time and freedom to explore.

The first weekend that I came home it was 5 degrees in Minnesota and windier than you can imagine. My plan was to walk around a lake that I had always driven by. I went on this soundwalk and made it halfway around the lake when I noticed I could no longer feel my hands. I could barely press the buttons on my Mini-Disc player because my hands were so cold. I got a good amount of sounds at that point so I thought I would be fine for my Drift 1. When I was able to get all of the sounds on the computer I noticed that there was heavy wind on every recording. This is when I realized I would be much better off recording a different day. A later weekend I found a much nicer morning where I decided to redo my soundwalk. I went around a neighborhood that I was somewhat familiar with and just randomly walked around without thinking about where I was going. I got some really nice recordings but when I attempted to import them on the computer I renamed the folder of the files and somehow managed to not be able to import the tracks that I had recorded. I sat at the computer for hours until I finally realized that I would be better off simply re-recording my sounds.
I went out the following morning and decided to constrict my walking area for this sound walk. I walked in a similar area to my previous walk but tried to walk in a path that ended up looking like a top hat. Below I have a map with my starting point and my walking path. I will later go into greater depth about the actual spots where I found my favorite sounds. The different sound locations are listed below so you can see where I found each individual sound.

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