The Eerie Train

This is my favorite! I recorded this train for about five minutes to make sure I would get every noise possible. I was so into it that when a car was honking at me to move out of the way, I thought it was the sounds coming from the brakes of the train. Needless to say it was embarrassing when I turned around and finally noticed that that I was in his way. Also, while the train was putting down its breaks it made an eerie haunting sound. At some points it even sounds like a crystal glass when you get your finger wet and trace the brim of the glass.
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The Chiming of Tolls

On the bridge (Young St) I also got some recordings of the tolls chiming, signaling a boat was coming through. I was actually recording some construction when I heard the chimes, so I quickly went as close to the drawbridge as possible and began recording. While I was recording I was next to a truck, so you can here the powerful engine. It's interesting how the several different chimes sound like a pattern, but then break from it and create their own. There is also another drawbridge that begins to chime as the boat is going through this bridge.
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The Digger

There was a lot of construction in this area, (5th Ward) and this one stuck out from all the rest. It has a metallic grind noise like the creaking of the excavator's metal.
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Museum's Waterfall

I tried the waterfall by the Milwaukee Art Museum at several different positions and this was my favorite. I put my mics on top of the grate and it captured several different tones from the water. My favorite of the three tones in this, are the droplets. Can you pick out the other varieties?
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Over the Bridge

Before recording this I knew I liked the sound of the cars driving over the metal grates of a bridge, so this would be a good one. I like how my recording escalates in sound, because at the end several cars came by at once and two trucks creating the loud thunderous sound. There is some background horns from a train which I like, I was near the same railroads as my Eerie Train recording.
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Drift Strategy

Throughout my drift I decided to walk left, right, left, right and so on, in a zig zag. And then I went back on the same roads but on the other side. If there were obstacles or the road ending where I was to turn, I would keep walking until the next available road was possible. It worked pretty well, sending me straight up to the Milwaukee Museum. I recorded noise from three different "areas"; the "construction area" near the 5th Ward grounds, the "city area" in downtown Milwaukee and the Lakefront near the Milwaukee Art Museum, through my drift strategy.

Drift 1 Map

This is the map of my drift conducted on September 24th, 2008. Zoom in or click on the markers to learn more of my soundwalk. The yellow marker is where I began the soundwalk. The green markers with a dot are the recordings I put on my blog, while the plain green markers are the other recordings I did. The red line is the beginning of my drift while the blue is on the way back to my starting point, making this about three hours and forty-five minutes of drifting.

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