I was on the 7th floor of the library, where I usually go to study between 11am and 12:30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
This girl, whom I had never seen before, and who was in some drug-induced state, came and sat in the desk right beside me. She was on the phone with a friend and was talking loudly about how she needed a sexual release. Note the audible shifting in seats as nearby people struggled with how to react to this. (Eventually I called public safety because she seemed a tad unwell, but I needed a recording because it was hard to believe).
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Kristin Chenoweth Interview!
4/12/15, 7pm, Theresa Lang Center, Richie Ridge interviewing Kristin Chenoweth as hosted by the SAG Foundation
Farthest: Cars outside, ushers talking outside the room, glasses clinking as wine is poured
Medium: Baby crying a few rows back (ugh), overenthusiastic fan-girls talking about how they’re going to “lose it” when Kristin walks into the room, jazz music playing
Closest: Discussion of the various things my aunt and her friends have seen onstage lately, inept sound operator testing the microphones right in front of us.
Sound remains consistent, no one wants to be perceived as less than polite and cultured (except for that damn crying baby).
One word description: Sophisticated
Three sounds: Jazz music, wine glasses, excited chatter
Max’s Field Recording
Stuyvesant Hall Third Floor
The elevator moving and beeping
Max’s Journal Entry
1- 4/15/15-1:55pm-Lowe 216
2-Wind Outside and stomping downstairs.
3- People watercoloring and moving around at desks across the room.
4- Everyone is listening to Jeremy Jordan and Cheyenne Jackson sing.
5- Medium-Loud
6- Musical
7- Music, People Talking, Stomping Downstairs.
Sound Observation #6
1. 3/20/15 – 2:00pm – backstage for “How the Other Half Loves”
2. Farthest: people whispering, people laughing, prop pieces moving or being dropped
3. Medium: wood creaking, footsteps on a platform, actors speaking lines
4. Closest: actors whispering backstage, tip-toe sounds backstage, clothe hangers clanking
5. The sound level would escalate, decrease, start to increase, and then escalate quickly and sound activity was constant.
6. One Word Description: Comedy
7. Three Sounds: people laughing, actors whispering backstage, actors speaking lines
The Witches Brew (restaraunt)
far sound- walking, mumbles from the crowd,
medium sound- forks and spoons, waiters taking orders, faint music
close sound- friends talking, plates colliding with spoons,
one word- curious
My time in the Hammer Lab completing assignments
Journal Entry: 7th floor of the library
Tuesday 3/24, 11:30am, 7th floor of library
Closest: Girl in neighboring desk turning pages in her textbook, boy a few seats away erasing something rather furiously, me sipping my iced coffee
Medium: Library employee going through an aisle of books about twenty feet away and scanning them (quiet beep), someone trying to muffle their coughing
Farthest: Elevator doors opening, people talking in study rooms
One word: Hushed
3 sounds: pages turning, erasing, muffled coughing
Max’s Field Recording
The Yard House in Cincinnati Ohio
You can hear the TV’s from the basketball game, clinking of plates and glasses as well as people all around talking. You can also here PETER ruin my sound clip. Sorry!
Sound observation
1- 3.26.15-8:55pm-The Booth Theatre, Manhattan
2- I can hear distant speaking as well as the music from the preshow.
3- I can also hear people sitting in their chairs and getting back up.
4- Tanner is speaking to me and the guy next to me is coughing.
5-LOUD and busy!
6- Excitement!
7- Talking, Preshow music, playbills turning