The second day of recording was the day after the first on Tuesday 11th April, I thought it best to get all the recordings done around the same time within a two or three day period, firstly I remembered where I had finished off from the previous session and so that the weather didn’t change too much. The second day however, was much windier than the first and this is something that I had to take in to account, especially as today was the day that I would be walking up steep hill, which would be windier than down at the bottom of the hill.
The first part of the recording started from the other side of the train tracks, before I could get into the main part of the high street there was another road to cross which was Wigford Way/St Mary’s Street. For the next part of the recording it was mainly busy high street commotion, a lot of people walking about, talking to each other, the rustling of shopping bags, through this part I got around 10-12 minutes of recording.
The second part of the recording was going up Steep Hill, now this was a lot quieter than the shopping centre part of the high street, this recording was just people walking up the hill, talking about how steep it is; after this part I sat outside the cathedral for a while and recorded people walking to and from the cathedral, I also recorded the cathedral bells, on this section of the path I got around 20-25 minutes of recording.
The last part, and probably the hardest part of the recording, was going from the cathedral quarter and walking to the Ermine Estate, I started walking towards all the shops and pubs outside the cathedral, walking along Bailgate, I then come to a main road, on the corner of Newport and Church Lane, I use Google Maps to tell me where the Ermine Estate is, however it is very confusing and I spend around 30 minutes trying to figure out where I am going, in the end I make the decision to just carry on walking down Newport and end my journey outside Bishop Grosseteste University. This would also be the end of the soundscape, all in all I got around an hours’ worth of recording. I will now start the editing process to get a comprehensive soundscape of Lincoln that is around 20 minutes long.