My Sound Walk Notes and Reflections - Josh

My exact notes:
Shuffling steps. Friends chat in an office. The stairwell sounds like marching. The door is extremely creaky. The AC reverb in the stairwell. Many papers rustle with pens. A cart is being pulled outside. A vehicle goes by the door. The door opens & opens clear sound. Cars, people, trucks starting. Each vehicle has a distinct sound-small vs. big, small vs. small... Construction somewhere, multiple wheres. Always feet. Children playing. A friend says hello, I hear her music. Cars idle, we move. The sound of generators from each different building is heard everywhere. Impatient truck revs engine at people. Finally birds chirping-usurps construction. Each shuffles different. Conversation: one sided. Cafe music: American Woman. Loud bike lock turns attention. Different conversations, different languages. Food orders, food itself sounds. Sound of work, trash can empty/rolling across tile as man excuses way through crowd. Overwhelming AC--didn't notice till now. A whistle, for attention, not of a song. Conversational laughter. Every sound echoes in the garage--from inside and out. Overwhelming sound of crickets makes it sound like midnight. Rushing water from the fountain. Hands on railing sound like paper brushing together. 'Jo Running Upside Down,' a movie, plays quietly in the hallway. Everyone slams into their chairs.

There was one thought I had about this experience that stood out to me, and that was about how every person, even every thing has a very distinct sound; like a fingerprint. First I noticed how each person steps, shuffles, and scuffs ever so slightly differently. Then I noticed how each car, though they sounded similar, had distinct noises. The different construction sights sounded completely different, and each bird had a different whistle. Every conversation we walked by had a different dynamic that you could here and even every plastic salad container rustled a little different. I just thought it was interesting how everything sounded different and how each project we do takes that, and then shapes the individuality of a person, place, or thing (a noun I guess). I like that.