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Driving Home
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March 1st, 11:30pm, Driving down Oak Street
Farthest: Other cars driving by
Medium: My engine, weird and unexplained sounds of my car, tires splashing through puddles
Closest: Rain on my windshield, windshield wipers, music on the radio
Level: Medium
Description: Rushed
Important sounds: My engine, rain on the windshield, music on the radio

Journal
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1.   2/28/18 on the Northern State at 5:00

2. Honking, hip hop music, “F$@^ You!!!!”-Evil soccer mom

3. The sound of the road as my mom drives, the radio blasting Demi Lovato, the blinker indicators, the engine revving.

4. The wind rushing through the open windows, the beat of my heart.

5. Minimal sound activity. This was a challenge for myself to see what I could tune into in a non stationary environment. I feel like next time, I should stick with stationary environments.

6. Gravely

7. Engine revving, blinkers, radio.

Field Recording
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Location: Laundry room of Enterprise Hall

Sounds: Washing machines are whirring and dryers are spinning away

Journal Entry
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  1. Date/Time/Location: February 28/ 3:30pm/ drounge
  2. Far sounds: doors closing, footsteps coming down the stairs, people talking loudly in the Psybrary
  3. Closer sounds: backpacks moving, people walking in the halls, people conversing around me ion the drounge
  4. Closest sounds: my breathing, knuckles cracking, shoes shuffling
  5. Sound level: Medium loud. The conversation in the drounge can be pretty loud, but for the time of day it wasn’t too bad
  6. Description: hectic
  7. Key sounds: people talking in the psybrary, people talking around me in the drounge, and knuckles cracking

Journal Entry!
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1- 2/27/18-7:08-Adam’s Playhouse
2- door opening and closing, voices echoing in the audience, creaking of wood
3- chatter and brooms hitting the ground, a hollow sound of something hitting wood
4- my breathing, the hum of the tv, the white noise of a radio

5- lots of movement distanced and spread out through space, it’s medium to loud volume- fluctuation
6- Clamour

7- Voices in the audience, the hum of the tv, footsteps

Journal Entry
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  1. Date: February 28, 2018
    Time: 7:14 PM
    Location: Nassau/Suffolk downstairs lounge
  2. Farthest: someone opening a packet of cookies
  3. Medium: people talking, the tv on, laughing
  4. Closest: me zipping up my jacket and walking through the hall
  5. General sound level: medium
    General sound activity: medium
  6. One word description: usual
  7. 3 important sounds: conversations, the tv, walking across the floor