The ultimate goal of the two soundwalks was to open our ears
to two different environments. Westerkamp referred to our ears as being “neglected”,
so we did our best to observe sounds that typically go unnoticed. The two types
of sounds we focused on were man-made sounds and the sounds of nature.
The first soundwalk was through the middle of
campus. Being such an active area, many of the natural sounds were drowned out
by the much louder man-made sounds. The amount of different sounds occurring at
once was overwhelming at times.
The second soundwalk was at the UK arboretum. Since the
arboretum is meant to be a nature sanctuary, we expected to hear nothing but
the sounds of nature. We turned out to be wrong, however. Although there were
many more natural sounds than the first soundwalk, we were still able to hear
many man-made sounds.
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