My drift strategy turned out to be not nearly as good of an idea as I had hoped. In my time here in Milwaukee I have explored a lot to the west and south, so I decided that my goal would be to walk as far east as possible. Unfortunately, not having consulted a map I didn’t realize that you could only go east about 5 or 6 blocks before you hit the lake. Refusing to give up so soon, I went north then until I found a way to go farther east. I eventually ran into a beach where I took numerous recordings. I started to make my way back at that point the block that I started on.
I made a recording of just a flag flapping in the wind and the people that walked by. I just sat down on the curb around it and set my mics and recorder down nest to me. You can still hear the lake a bit since I was still pretty close to it. The most prominent sounds are the cars driving by though.
I went exploring by the beach and decided to take a recording on a path that was surrounded by bushes and other plant life. I was hoping to get a good recording of various bugs and things like that on the recording. You can also hear birds in the background as well as the lake, which I was by.
For this recording I tried to record in a different way. I held one microphone in each hand and held them inbetween the two signs, one mic on each side of the pole. The effect creates a very different sound for each side. You can hear a lawnmower and a power saw of some sort in the left speaker, but you bearly hear it in the right speaker. I must say though, you get some interesting looks when you are standing with your hands inside a stop sign for no obvious reason.
