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Dave Soldier & Kurt Vonnegut: A Soldier's Story

This is a recording Narrated by Kurt Vonnegut and conducted and composed by Dave Soldier, which brings to light the human folly of War.

Duration (24:41)

Listen HERE

Unnamed Sound

For my unnamed sound, I took the 901 coach bus to Pewaukee, WI, 25 miles west of Milwaukee. This was recorded in a residential area around 1 p.m. on Saturday.

Listen to the sound HERE (Duration: 0:40)

Field Recording -- Drift

Drift Strategy
For my Drift strategy I used two different techniques to determine change in direction and distance to travel. To calculate my direction, I would flip two coins (at the same time), and let them fall on the ground, and let the combination of the coins' sides decide:

• Heads-Heads: turn left
• Tails-Tails: turn right
• Heads-tails: Keep going straight

Knowing the direction I had to walk, I still had to determine how far I would walk. To do this I took the spinner used on the famous board game "The Game of LIFE". I would spin the spinner (labeled with the numbers 1-10) and I would look in the direction of where I was walking, If I was somewhere more urban, I would go that number of blocks. If it was somewhere more rural, I would use those as steps (1 = 100 steps, 10 = 1000 steps).

Track 1
Location: Balmer Park, Pewaukee.
Time of Recording: Friday, 10/15, at approximately 3:30 p.m.
Track Description (1:13) HERE
Listen to Track 1 (1:50) HERE

Track 2
Location: McKinley Marina, Milwaukee.
Time of recording: Wednesday, 10/20, at approximately 4p.m.
Track description (0:44) HERE
Listen to Track 2 (0:50) HERE

Track 3
Location: Outside Pick n' Save grocery store on Capitol Dr., Pewaukee.
Time of Recording: Tuesday, 10/26, at approximately 4:30 p.m.
Track description (0:51) HERE
Listen to Track 3 (0:58) HERE