Reading Response #3

For this reading response I chose Hildergard Westerkamps article on Soundwalking. I really liked this article because it goes into a great deal of things that relate to this class. She defines soundwalking in her own style and how we as a people do it all the time. She then takes on different ways to go on soundwalks and questions to address when doing so. One way she discusses is to go out with a friend and have one person be blindfolded. I liked this idea because you have to identify the sounds yourself without looking. I think this article is helpful because the questions she asks are things that I took into consideration before my soundwalks. For instance, I asked myself if I could walk without making a noise because I did not want myself interfering with what I was recording. But the steps she lays out in her article about going out on a soundwalk have a lot of relation to this class and it was basically a reminder of all that I learned in 116 this semester.