I ended up finding a microphone and amplifier and a bit of space, and moving the microphone around so I could get different tones. One of the sections is that, a very simple way of producing stuff. Were you tempted to use any field recordings, or did you want to focuss on responding to it? AU: I did use a bit of wood that I had picked up from one of those trees on a walk to play my guitar with, you can hear that in the background. I thought about banging sticks together, or hitting a tree with a piece of wood and recording it, but I didn't do that in the end. I suppose if you're doing the walk, and have the headphones quiet enough, you'll be able to hear the ambient sounds. AU: It's interesting you say that, because when I took my experimental pieces up to the walk last week just before I finally put it together I hadn't recorded the mp3s loud enough to really crank them, and my iPod wouldn't go any louder, and I could hear the water in the stream you have to cross, and I thought that was really nice. So you have that option if you turn it down, or have one ear half off. These are all options you can do. It's different for every person who does the walk. AU: It's a John Cage thing, isn't it? Every one is different. And also people will walk at different