Location: Honors College Lounge, 4pm
Sounds: Keyboard clacking, distant conversation, air conditioning blowing, soft footsteps, jacket rustling
Author Archives: Casey Curtis
Journal Entry #7
4/24/26–1:02pm—Doughnut Plant, Brooklyn
Farthest: cars honking, cars driving past
Medium: Coffee machines, coins clinking, music over speakers, air conditioning running
Close: wrapper crinkling, conversation, footsteps
Sound Level: medium
Description: Pleasantly busy
Essential sounds: coffee machine, coins clinking, conversation
Field Recording #5
Location: Starbucks
Sounds: People talking, music playing over speakers, straw wrapper rustling, footsteps, faint sound of coffee machines, beeping at register, drink being set down
Journal Entry #5
4/7/26–4:00pm–Honors College Lounge
Furthest: Doors shutting down the hall, distant laughter, Dean on a zoom call in their office
Medium: Keys jangling, coffee machine running, water dripping into cup, video playing off someone’s laptop, footsteps on carpet in hall
Closest: Newspaper being flipped through, conversation, ruffling of jacket on couch, tapping of keyboard
Sound Level/Activity: Low sound level, very relaxed and calm atmosphere
Description: Organized clamor
Essential Sounds: coffee machine running, flipping through newspaper, keyboard tapping, conversation
Field Recording #4
Location: Student Center
Sounds: People talking, beeping at register, pushing cart across the floor, shoes squeaking, faint music, dishes clattering
Journal Entry #4
My Dorm—7:22 a.m.—3/27/26
Furthest: Car alarm ringing, sirens passing by, crows cawing outside
Medium: Elevator door opening, people talking and laughing on my floor, toilet flushing, shower running, door shutting
Closest: Heater running, sheets shuffling, tea kettle boiling, show playing on TV
Sound Level/Activity: Low level of noise and everything is toned down and not super constant
Description: Soft
Necessary Sounds: Heater running, shower running, doors shutting, people talking
Field Recording #3
Location: Dutch Treats
Sounds: Door opening, jacket rustling, footsteps, conversation between employees in Spanish, Bob’s Burgers playing on the TV, someone stocking a shelf, scanner beeping at register
Journal Entry #3
3/6/26–6:08 P.M.—13th Floor Lounge of Estabrook Hall
Furthest— doors slamming on floor below, ice machine clattering in the kitchen, distant laughing
Medium— elevator doors opening, conversation in the room over, TV playing nearby, music being played off of someone’s phone in the kitchen
Close— keyboard typing, sound of AC/heater running, footsteps on the floor, doors opening
Sound Level— Medium, not super quiet but the strongest noise is not nearby
Description— Routine
Essential Sounds— ice machine clattering, elevator doors opening, sound of AC/heater running
Field Recording #2
Student Center Market
Identifiable Sounds: Scanner beeping at register, people talking in the background, pots and metal dishes clanking, dishes being set down, jacket rustling, plastic wrapper crinkling
Journal Entry #2
2/19/26–2:36 P.M.– Classroom in Roosevelt Hall
Farthest Sounds– cars driving on the road, car horns, sirens, doors shutting
Medium Range– footsteps, conversations from people walking past, wind blowing trees outside window, distant laughter elsewhere in the building
Close Range– pens clicking, shoes scraping on the ground, chair creaking, typing on laptops, eraser on paper, humming
Sound Level– low with a fair amount of activity
Sound Environment– focused
Necessary Sounds: conversations from people walking past, typing on laptops, pens clicking