In this first WordPress site post compose a pre-field study well-edited post of 750 words that captures your preconceptions/expectations/anticipations and preparation concerning your spring field study.

On this trip I am leaving with zero expectations. So that my mind is open to all possibilities to how my experience with in these cities will be. Now as a part of my experiences I will be recording, interviewing, sketching and filming, the scapes of the cities as well as its music. My preconceptions are that I will come to California and these Small scale “cities” will all have there own individual concepts and sound. I feel that a lot of the soundscapes with in the cities will be relatively the same, due to the architecture being the same.Though I may not be able to connect certain musical pieces to the sounds of the city, I will have to remember that music is more about taking the sounds and the emotional correlation to that sound and put that sound to an instrument that will then mock that emotional response.
I expect to be questioned on my idea of sound manipulation but its something that most individuals do not see and may have a hard time understanding.(That by using sounds to evoke emotional responses, we can manipulate people into biting the bait, the bait being the slogan or theme that is being presented) I plan on talking to consumers and people of these cities and asking them how this idea makes them feel.
Using the five elements of the city paths, edges, districts, nodes, and monuments, I will direct myself around the cities and there popular areas. By using these elements I expect to find myself talking, listening, and reacting to new surroundings. I can’t wait to meet new people with in these urban ethos’s and compare the sounds that come out of them with my home Olympia Washington.I also want to see the connections and difference with in each city. There seems to be a huge idea of what all cities are like but we don’t hear much about how all of them are different. I want to take what is different from my experience with in these cities and mesh them with the different concepts and sound of Olympia and Seattle. As a multi media artist I will be taking the view of the urban ethos and applying that to my youtube show Blakers, while updating my experiences via twitter, Fascebook, tumblr, and Instegram. While being exposed to this culture and environment, I will try to compose each of my weekly Youtube shows with sounds and music from my soundscape.

So I am taking the idea of the city and placing that on theme parks. Now in order for theme parks to gain a following and have that following consume their products, they will need to draw the attention of many types of people. This means these companies need to be reaching out to a very diverse crowd. As I read and discussed with fellow peers in the first quarter of this program, we discussed that in order for a city to fully be a city that some of the aspects of the city would have to reach out to more people who are multi culturally curious. This to me means for theme parks such as the ones I am studying Disneyland, Six Flags, and universal studios that these organizations have studied diverse techniques within architecture and sound to grab the attention of many different cultures and attract them to these small scale “cities”.The best thing to take away from this experience is to understand how corporations use the soundscape as a way to grab the attention of the people. Ultimately creating a following and a pattern. This pattern is something that many will catch on to and want to be apart off. What I want to take away from this is the ability to find a different pattern that will make my art look and sound great.