I recently read the article "A New Way of Walking" by Joseph Hart. I opted to write about this particular article because even the title itself intrigued me from the get go. Why not take the monotonous task of walking and spice it up by doing it a new way. Not only would it be refreshingly different but it gives you the opportunity to learn and discover so many new things about the area around you.

The essay describes the writers experience with psychogeography as they developed their own algorithmic walking pattern and explored an unfamiliar city with it. He discusses his excitement in being taken off his normal path and being thrown into a new awareness of the city around him. He also describes the odd sensation of being in a gray area between randomness and order as he has no true goal or destination but as he wanders through the unfamiliar streets and alleys he is still following the organized pattern of his algorithm.

Joseph's new way of walking has everything to do with my current project of recording sound. By creating a pattern of walking that takes me out of my normal path I can encounter sounds that I may never hear anywhere else, greatly expanding my own personal library of sound.