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The Blizzard
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  1. February 9th, 11:36am, Netherlands South
  2. Far Sounds: Snow plow attempting to clear the parking lot, snow crackling under cars out on Oak street
  3. Medium Sounds: Students crunching snow as they walk to get food, students talking
  4. Close Sounds: the snow deafening all other sounds around me, the wind howling through the air and the trees
  5. Sound Level: Loud
  6. Environment: Apocalyptic
  7. Essential Sounds: Wind, Crunching Snow, Snow Plow

Journal 2
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  1. February 9th, 11:30 PM, Hofstra USA
  2. Movement, pots and pans in the kitchen to my right; Galaga music; indistinct conversations at the table to my left and behind me
  3. Brad moving food around his plastic container, eating food. Alex listening to music in his earbuds.
  4. The internal sound of me chewing food
  5. The sound level is loud, it feels busy and the sounds are annoying to me.
  6. fidgety
  7. The kitchen noises, conversations, chewing

Journal Entry 2
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  1. 2/7/2017

Approximately 7:30 AM

My car, on the Meadowbrook Parkway, heading to Hofstra

  1. Another car on the road, some distance away.
  2. Another car as it passed me on the left.

The sound of the wheels as the car quickly moves.

  1. The engine’s high whine as it struggles to change gears

The engine’s roar as it coasts at about 65 miles per hour.

The music in the car playing very loudly; the cast recording of The Adding Machine: A New Musical.

My own coughing, quite frequently.

  1. Loud: my car is naturally pretty loud, as well as the cars around me, and my music is turned up even louder to compensate.
  2. Quaint
  3. The music playing on the radio.

The sound of my car’s engine chugging along.

The sound of my car’s engine wheezing as it barely chugs along.

 

– J. Val

Journal #2
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  1. Front porch of my house, Butler Place, Hempstead, 4:45 PM Thursday
  2. Faint sound of a horn from Hempstead Turnpike
  3. People talking inside my house, kids laughing and playing down the street
  4. My breathing, the shuffle of my feet in the snow
  5. Sound level is fairly quiet
  6. Soft, ethereal
  7. The TV, cars, people talking