On Menlo Blvd, I came across a woman mowing her lawn. I decided to record the sound, hoping it might sound cool. As it turns out, the lawn-mowing sound isn't especially exciting, but the sounds that were made as I walked are exciting! I walked past her yard on the sidewalk, on which there were MANY leaves that had fallen already. Here comes winter... I was holding my microphones in either hand, and I had my hands down by my sides. The leaves were really thick, actually, and I was wearing moccasins. The combination of these two factors make it sound like I was shuffling through the leaves, but I was merely walking! The microphones just picked up the sound really well.
Once again, because I was walking, you can hear a little bit of the microphone/cord sounds as they moved. I was unaware that this would be such a prominent sound in my recordings, but now because I know, it will not happen in my other drifts.
Not only was I experimenting with sound, but also with images. The above photograph was taken a few blocks down from the lawn-mowing lady's house. I found a beautifully colored autumn tree, and I held my camera up while I spun in a circle and released the shutter with a 1/30 of a second exposure time. (This was taken with a Canon 40D DSLR camera, not a point and shoot digital camera). I thought it was a lovely image to accompany this sound!
Click HERE to listen to the sound!
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