Drift Strategy

There is so much to discover in the city and often times some of the most interesting aspects of it are greatly ignored and overlooked. In an attempt to explore my surroundings (the city of Milwaukee) from a new perspective, as well as in a manner that would facilitate discovery through experimentation, I went on a four hour "drift" around a specific area of the city, recording the different soundscapes I encountered on my adventure. My only plan was to draw a circle on a region of the map that I thought would produce a variety of interesting and illuminating sound experiences and then, armed with a mini disc player, headphones, a home-made microphone (to see a picture of my home-made mic rig click here), and note-taking and diagram drawing materials, to traverse every street within the designated area paying close attention to every new sonic experience along my way.

To see a GoogleMap of my designated drift area click here. The shaded area within the circle represents the general area I was interested in for my drift.