Joseph Skow
Film 116
10/23/2009
“Field Recording -- Drift”
Field Recording Clip 3
10/23/2009 2:30PM
Intersection of Belleview & Downer (construction site)
My original drift strategy involved circling three different locations on a map, isolated to the general East Side area. One of the places I circled happen to be Shorewood Park (“Atwater”), and on the way I ran into something even better! On the corner of Belleview and Downer there was a construction crew cutting brick, and placing the pieces in the median of the road. At approximately 2:30PM I separated the microphones about a foot apart and clipped them to the inside of a nearby trashcan.
At the beginning of the clip you can hear the faint rumbling of the chainsaw about fifteen feet in front of the microphones. A buss takes off fifty feet southeast. As the saw continues to rattle one of the construction workers walks up behind the trashcan and throws away a plastic bag, directly behind the clipped microphones. He mumbles something in Spanish to another worker.
Twenty seconds in the saw begins to speed up as the construction worker slices into a piece of brick. After he makes the cut he turns off the saw and drops both of the pieces into their spots on the median. You can here the faint thump as they’re dropped into place. Another buss stops at the intersection. After all is said and done the workers question each other on the quality of their work.
I was especially happy with the depth of interaction that takes place. From the direct foreground where the man throws away his trash, to the cutting of the brick, and onto the traffic in the distance, each sound comes in at it’s own direction and intensity. The formula was luck. I had no clue the man would need to throw something away, nor do I think he saw my equipment, but when all was said and done it seemed to work out for the best.
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