Soundwalk-Blog #2

For my sound walk I spent an hour walking around my dorm building in upper Manhattan. I took my earphones out and was just present in the moment.  Usually I'm listening to music, not pay attention to the people or sounds around me. I did my sound walk during the day around 2 pm. The sunny was shining and there were a ton of people on the streets. One of the keynotes that I first noticed was the traffic. The squeak of the brakes on the bus, honking of horns, and the roar of car engines. There was the sizzle of food being prepared at the food truck, the chatter from pedestrians on the street, the cry of an infant and a plea from the homeless man on the corner of 86th street. The noise a bike makes as it passes by at a fast speed, the slamming of a car door, the sound of a empty bottle being thrown in the trash can, music blaring from someone's headphones and the sound of a dog barking in the distance. I pass the park and you can hear children's laughter and shouting, the swings swishing back and forth and the thump of feet beating against gravel. These are all sounds that are associated with the day time and are all noises I expected to hear. Nothing really struck me as out of the ordinary.