- 3/26/17 4:40 PM amtrak train
- farthest: train moving on tracks, bathroom door sliding open
- medium: people talking, typing, crinkling from opening food items
- closest: podcast through my headphones, the opening of a plastic bin
- A lot of sound activity, but sound level relatively quiet.
- Busy
- podcast, people talking, train moving on tracks
Author Archives: previous-student
Field Recording Nacho
- Estabrook 1oth floor lounge
- the opening scene to the movie Nacho Libre
Journal 8
- 3/31/17, 12:09, Estabrook 10th floor lounge
- Farthest: people talking in a room nearby
- Medium: the hum of a computer getting warmed up and preparing to play a movie
- closest: Bryan is moving chairs and it is making a loud screeching noise
- there is quite a bit of sound coming from the lounge
- excited
- the computer, and bryan talking/moving chairs
Estabrook 6th floor lounge
Date/Location: 3/30, 12:20am, Estabrook 6th floor lounge
far sounds: people talking, someone moving around in room above me
medium sounds: hum from the light above me, 2 other people in lounge typing on laptops, beep from elevator, elevator moving
close sounds: 2 other people in lounge talking to each other, someone’s door open and close on floor, someone walking in flipflops in the bathroom, shower
sound level: medium
descriptive word: relaxing
3 important words: elevator sounds, laptop typing, 2 people talking to each other
Typing
- Location: My boyfriends house in Whitestone, NY (Queens)
- Sounds: my boyfriend typing on his keyboard, me saying “go”
Sound Observation
- Sitting in the Adams playhouse during intermission of Complete Works on Thursday Night
- Farthest: people on the balcony chatting, the buzz from the stage lights
- Medium: the people at the back of the orchestra talking, the sound board opt talking on headset
- Closest: Group next to me talking about Rue Paul’s drag race, my coughing
- Loud
- Anxious
- Headset chatter, the group next to me, the balcony
Sound Observation
- 3/18/17, 5:31 PM, gas station
- Farthest: a plane humming in the sky, cars passing on the road, driving through puddles
- Medium: The little tv on the gas station pump, some news channel or advertisement, muffled because I am sitting in the car. Random beeping sounds.
- Closest: Melting snow is dropping on the windshield of the car, making a thumping sound.
- There is a lot of sound activity, the level is medium
- Home
- rain drops, cars splashing through puddles, the sounds of the outside being muffled from sitting in a car.
Fire Alarm (loud)
- Stuyvesant Hall 3/28/17
- Fire alarm going off, complaining with my roommate. Someone outside of my door scrambling to put a shirt on. Running down the stairs, someone dropped their keys.
Field Recording 7
- March 30th, 9:47 PM, Hauge House Room 314.
- Pencil sharpener sharpening a pencil, gears grinding
Netherspan
1- 2:50 pm 3/30 Netherspan
2- Birds chirping, traffic, car horns
3- Footsteps echoing, voices, elevator ding
4- Music playing through my headphones, water bottle sloshing
5- minute
6- halcyon
7- birds, footsteps, music
