Date/Location: 3-10, 1:30am, Estabrook 6th floor women’s bathroom
Sounds heard: me brushing my teeth, water from faucet, me spit into sink, hum from the heating system
Author Archives: previous-student
Library
Date/Location: 3-5, 7:20pm, bottom floor of Library
far sounds: someone flipping through pages of a text book, someone cough
medium sounds: people talking, someone sniffle, clicking of a pen, placing a key or something on a table, someone typing on their laptop
close sounds: hum of my laptop, footsteps, people talking, someone laugh, a cough
sound level: medium
descriptive word: studious
3 important sounds: laptop hum, laptop keys tapping, textbook pages fliping
Prize Wheel
Place – Resident Hall Association Office
Sound – Ticking of a prize wheel
Journal Entry
- 3/9/17, 11:20 Hague House Lounge
- heater hum, distant laughing
- girl singing
- music played on a laptop nearby, excessive tapping on a laptop nearby to the music
- constant noise but at a medium level
- discord
- excessive tapping on a laptop nearby to the music, music played on a laptop nearby, and girl singing
Field Recording
March 9, 2017, 5:24 PM Hofstra Fitness Center
Exercise machines, my exercise machine making weird banging sounds, distant music
Journal Entry
1 – 3/27/2017 || 9:35 PM || My backyard
2 – Cars at the intersection
3 – Cars passing on the road.
4 – Wind in the trees. A car door slamming as someone exits their car.
5 – Very low, but somewhat busy.
6 – Hollow
7 – The cars passing, the intersection, and the wind.
Late Night Suite
- 3/9/17, 11:22 PM, in the common room
- farthest- The laundry machine whirring and tumbling clothes, water flowing through pipes
- medium- My suitemate is watching Forrest Gump on the tv in her room with the door open
- closest- Music from my headphones, “Into Dust” by Mazzy Star
- It is quiet, there is little sound activity
- Easygoing
- the quiet song, the dialogue from the movie, the water
Building a Shelf!!!!
- On the grid during 55
- Dinging and banging sounds, screwing nuts and bolts into the holes of the shelves, mumbling, the cup of bolts shaking, a wrench hitting the floor.
Sound Journal #6
- March 9, 2017. 9:04 p.m. – Outside the Playhouse
- Close Sounds: My conversation with Roseanna
- Medium Sounds: Cheering for Laura who walked out the stage door
- Far Sounds: A car pulling out in the parking lot
- Sound Level: High
- Environment: Noisy
- Three Essential Sounds: Conversation, cheering, a car driving away
Field Recording #5
The wind created by the cast of Hamlet.