**information taken from paper notebook writings from the past week**

Defining the outcomes of this audio paper has been a hefty task. I began looking into the footsteps thing as an absurd angle on research; I noticed that different shoes made me feel different. Oxfords vs. Doc Martens are hugely contrasting moods, and I decided to link that with sound. The Oxfords have a distinct knock when the heel strikes the floor and then a quieter ‘clack’ when the ball of your foot comes down. My Doc Martens simply ‘thunk’.

Following these simple observations I came to wonder how much information we can glean from just simply listening to a persons footsteps. This led on to researching different studies that looked into footsteps, some recording data with pressure pads and others by using structures as receivers.

This told me that there was a lot of data held within footsteps, and so I decided to interview some friends on the matter, to see whether they notice any alterations in the sound of footsteps under different circumstances.