My approach to recording the sounds of the city consisted of immediately recording my whole venture and visiting various stores to capture both the outdoors and indoors of the city. I then trimmed the recording down to the places I’ve gone to (the outside, Arc’teryx, and Kiehl’s).
As I interviewed Steven about his journey, I assumed he approached the assignment in the way I did, but soon discovered that I was wrong. Rather than recording his whole journey, he wandered around the area with no set destination and attempted to capture a nice sound like “birds,” the “sweeping” of a broom, and “traffic.”
Though we approached the task very differently, our recordings still resulted in what we believe to be the essence of the city–mine on consumerism and his on serenity.
