City Sound Map | Final Outcomes

After 'walking with intention' these past few weeks I had come to the decision to focus my map on Sound. More specifically the sounds I heard and recorded on my way round Kentish Town, Camden Town and Mornington Crescent. I had chosen this as my focus for my map as I thought it would make for an interesting and more abstract approach for a map based outcome. Maps are usually used to record the things we can see in order to move around a city with ease. However sound is not something you can see or simply record as well as buildings and roads on a normal map. That is why I thought it would be much more interesting to try and create a map of something we do not usually take as much notice of while mapping our way around a city.

Here is my first outcome I made;

The lines represent the actual route I took while walking and a few others roads and paths surrounding it. With the addition of different coloured and sized circles which represent the various different sounds I heard and how loud they were in comparison to one another. These particular sounds are the ones I heard and recorded while on my walk. I liked this outcome as it was a lot more abstract than I had planned, which was out of my comfort zone, however not disappointing. I found it represents its purpose well and is easy to understand. However, I still wanted to see where I could take it and see what alternate outcomes I could get. This is where I developed on this first outcome;