Trek Assesment #2

One. In a very loud industrial area just off South Water street I had a very unlikely and peaceful moment. I set up my mic next to an open space in the building where production of some sort was happening, what ever it was it was very loud, I could barley hear a car driving by even while listening through the mic. As I recorded I began not to notice the consistent loud noise. It was almost as if things became silent. About 10 feet to my left two men where having a conversation of which nothing I could hear. As I walked away from the area and the sound began to dissipate I felt as if I where slowly coming back to reality.

Two. I found a spot near the end of South Water Street where on the left is a junk yard, that is usually doing business on sundays, and up a small hill on the right is a large open grassy field crossed with multiple rails some of which are still in use. from this area you are able to see above the tops of buildings all the way to downtown Milwaukee. As you stared towards Downtown you started with the field, about a football field in length, then across the decrepit buildings of the industrial area through a mixture of new and old age structures to the modern ones which cover the upper sky line. As I would look across this scape I could feel the generations of people that have and will continue to survive in the city of Milwaukee.