Mailboxes make for some interesting noises. At this point in the drift, i was feeling very into the recording and wasn't thinking about how the outside world would see me. So, after approaching a mailbox, I decided to put my microphones inside of it and squeak the hinges. After I felt that sound was pretty cool, I smacked the mailbox and it sounded interesting as welll. It actually sounded like giants stomping through an ancient castle, which I thought was cool so I kept banging on the thing. I am reminded of the classical tune "Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg when I hear the thumps. My kindergarten teacher used to play that song and my best friend and I would put our shirts over our legs and stomp around like chubby trolls. I imagine that the banging noise in this recording is what I would have liked my stomping to sound like.
After a minute or so, a woman approached the ATM directly to the right of the mailbox. Seeing the look in her eyes made me realize that I must have looked like a crazy person, smacking a mailbox and opening it's hinges and listening to the squeaky noise it made. Perhaps she thought I lost my mail and couldn't get it out. Suffice to say, I pulled my microphones out of the mailbox and walked away pretty fast after that. Here is the portion of the recording I chose to display. Enjoy.
This was recorded at around 11:15 a.m. on Tuesday, July 1st, 2008.
Listen -------------> MAILBOX
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