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📍Lobos Creek, San Francisco
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Lobos Creek is at the western edge of San Francisco, near the Presidio. Here, the natural creek is a beautiful habitat for native insects and birds, and there is a mix of coastal scrub, cypress trees, and old dune ecosystems! The creek empty into the Pacific Ocean at Baker Beach, where there was a majestic backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge. You should listen to this soundwalk with a sense of tranquility and focus on the sounds of wind blowing sand into the water at the beach and the occational buzz of fast bees zooming by.📍San Lorenzo Creek, Hayward
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San Lorenzo Creek goes through the East Bay which starts at the hills above Castro Valley and flowing down through Hayward and San Lorenzo, before finally draining into the San Francisco Bay! It is such a layered and textured place in terms of auditory experience, where there are more natural upstream areas and hectic urban areas full of mechanical noise. There is also a secret Japanese garden in aresidential community which is definitely worth enjoying. You should focus on how the urban city and nature intersect, and think to yourself about whether or not the two sounds coexist or clash — something I really contemplated myself while editing. 📍Bushy Dell Creek, Oakland
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Bushy Dell Creek is tucked away in Oakland’s Lakeside Park which flows into Lake Merritt! Lake Merritt is the first wildlife refuge and you can find the old bird sanctuary here. Even within the urban infrastructure, there are so many pockets of gardens and stone bridges. There is a combination of different music in this soundwalk that shows the various cultures and people living in Oakland. You should listen to the quiet details in this soundwalk. There are more evident clips like the music and singing, but there is also the subtle tones of bird wings flapping and leaves shuffling that add to the intensity of the piece.📍Coyote Hills Regional Park, Fremont
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Coyote Hills is at the western edge of Fremont where there is a fantastic blend of open marshland, grassy hills, and Indigenous cultural history, as it was once inhabited by the Ohlone poeple. There is an amazing birdlife at Coyote Hills like red-winged blackbirds, geese, turkeys, and hawks, as wells as various marsh sounds like frogs, insects, and reeds. You should listen for the ecology as a whole here. There is intense sounds of the land like wind sweeping across the tall hills, as well as the water like birds lapping against the water as they play and clean. 📍Alameda Creek, Niles
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Alameda Creek is the largest watershed in the East Bay, and it goes through Niles, Fremont, and Union City! There is a combination of infrastructure, recreational trails, and waterways here, which produce a soundscape of water, birds, wildlife, foot traffic, bikes, and even the freeway! It is certainly sonically rich and the contrast between the loud and quiet is stark. After listening to this soundwalk, think about how the sound of the creek changes as I moved through different parts of the trail. Some are in rough shape which changes the way the water sounds when met with clusters of rocks, plants, and trash. 📍Pinole Creek, Pinole
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Pinole Creek goes through the city of Pinole, which was the northernmost region of our travel. It is in West Contra Costa County and this creek winds through different suburban communities, historic downtown, and the cute cafes of San Pablo. Here, you can hear a lot of urban overlay and community buzz at the same time, like the chatter of people laughing and talking while the suburban truck traffic rolls on in the back. In this soundwalk, you should focus on how fragmented the nature is. There is a lot of man-made structures in this area and a lot of new residential and commercial development in old immigrant neighborhoods that fragment the flow of natural sounds. 📸 Gallery
