Soundwalk

Soundwalk with a Buddy

First off, I was accompanied by this little guy who I sat down by for exercise #2
This is a Striped Gopher also known as a thirteen-lined ground squirrel. Fun Fact!

Exercise #1

Rustling of leaves by the breeze
Humming of lawn mowers
Cars on the freeway in the distance
My shoes kicking gravel before grass
My shoes shuffling against the grass
Leaves on the road blowing around
A child to the left and far away
Crickets- some higher than others
Dogs barking across the way
Birds Chirping
Squirrel barking
Fly passing close by

Lawnmowers have a continuous hum alongside the occasional struggle point maybe around a tree. Alongside the crickets, one may start then another responds at times. The cars were more an interruption based on the other continuous sounds.

Exercise #2

High Frequency: The Crickets were the most dominant due to their high pitched chirps. The birds as well, sounded like there were some in the bird house to the left and behind me. 

Low Frequency: The dogs were even further off, hardly noticeable, easier to concentrate on the rustling of the tall grass. Maybe another ground squirrel in the grass to the right and behind. The traffic hums also faded away, to right but very distant. Alongside the many lawnmowers, they almost seemed to stop.
Tiny Sounds: It seemed that I had moved further away from the domestic sounds and closer to the natural sounds of the path. The bees and crickets were now the loudest sounds. Rustling of the grass or the creaking of either sticks or dried up flowers could be heard. And finally the gophers swooping back into his little hole. The only real prominent mechanical sounds would be the slow hum of an airplane. With a surprising slam of some type of wood object? But the chirps and smaller cracks were easier to hear. The lawnmowers were now behind and distant.
The path was in back of a domestic subdivision, far enough away more towards a field leaving the larger subdivisions behind. There are many low points as seen the picture if I were to walk further along- which I did. Nature ruled over all the other typical domestic sounds such as a child, mowers, cars, and dogs. A few steps further into the path and it almost stopped. Easier to shift between plains. All together, a rather calming drone of sounds. Continuing down a right turn...

Exercise #3
This was not the same droning sounds when together. With new nature sounds there were more distinct plains of sounds.

I went down this curve and to the left. A small pond fresh with new mud with frogs. Splashing, plopping, tall grass moving, Sand hill cranes in the field, and either a distant cow or horse. Hard to get them confused I know, but they were pretty muffed the increase of the new closer sounds.

Below is my last image, certainly more entertaining.