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Journal 10
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1- Date/Time/Location.
4.11.13/7:30pm/NAB Black Box Theatre booth

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
The distant but constant buzz of a vacuum, people speaking

3- Identify and list the sounds at medium range from you.
The hum of a fan, keyboard sounds

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
Jordan’s chair squeaking, my chair moving

5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
Medium level and activity

6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
Lonely.

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
The vacuum, Jordan’s chair, my chair

Journal #9
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1)      4/10/13 The Outdoor Basketball Court by the Gym, 2:15 p.m

2)      Cars driving on the road, birds chirping

3)      People running on the basketball court, music from a car, the basketball bouncing

4)      Footsteps on the grass, people’s voices (arguing and swearing at each other due to the game), the wind whistling

5)      It’s a medium noise level, active, but still quiet enough to relax

6)      Chill

7)      People running on the basketball court, the wind, the people’s voices

Journal Entry #10
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1) 10:20AM, 4/11/2013, Around the Adams Quad

2) Cars going by from the direction of the NAB, people talking by Bits & Bytes

3) More people talking, guttural sounds from the stage combat class, I think, (numerous “ugh”s and “agh”s as people are fighting), the clicks/clops of a skateboard going over the cracks between pieces of the sidewalk

4) Sounds of wheels from a skateboard and the sound of it going over cracks as he passes me by, my own sniffling, people’s footsteps and ambient conversations as they pass by

5) Generally low-medium volume with occasional spikes (often from the “ouch I just got hit” sounds from the stage combat class) and low-medium activity (I don’t think too many people are awake yet, or they’re in class)

6) Jabbing

7) The guttural sounds from the stage combat class, the skateboarder, ambient conversations

Field Recording #9
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Listen to

Location: NAB Light Booth, 7:20pm, 4/11/2013

Sounds: Faint vacuum sound, clicking of mouse and keys on a keyboard, Courtney coughing and shuffling her position around in her chair. The loneliness and lack of excitement of the light booth as we wait for rehearsal to start in contrast to the excitement of the vacuuming and last minute set touch-ups going on below us

Field Recording #9
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Listen to

Identify the location of the clip – This recording was taken as I was walking from the student center to my room during the torrential downpour

Identify the sounds heard in the clip – This clip starts out with me holding my phone up in the wire frame of my umbrella in the middle of a torrential spring downpour. Shortly after the clip begins one can hear the sound of a very loud and deep thunder clap across the campus as I walked into the unispann. From here you can hear a bunch of voices murmuring of all the people that are waiting out the storm. Their voices have a small echo to them and fill the space as I walk through it. From here you can hear me shake out my umbrella of all the excess water and begin to walk across the unispann. The rest of the clip is of me walking across the unispann and passing different groups of people as they discover the storm outside. 

Journal #10
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1- 4/8/13 – 11:13 PM – Walking from the student center to Lowe in the quad
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you. – Furthest from me is the sound of a helicopter racing back and forth across the sky. It had a much harsher and deeper tone to the propellers that one would normally associate with a helicopter. It passed back and forth for about three minutes while I sat on the quad.
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you. – At a medium range from me I can hear a loud drone of different air units and air conditioners that are pulling air and running a fan at high RPMs. Coming from the building on my left are two different tones coming from two different units. These tones are similar but not identical, making somewhat of a choral effect as they rang through the quad and bounced their waves off of Bits. On the opposite side of the quad (at Bits) there are distinctly three other fans and air units that are running at a very high RPM and making a very loud choral effect as well. All of these tones are extremely loud and overwhelming as they rang through the quad but none of them were the same intensity, quality or tone as each other; however similar. 
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant). – Closest to me I can hear the sound of the young grass being squashed under my shoes. This sound had a distinct difference from the noise one would usually hear when walking through grass as the grass I was on was younger and crisper in a colder harder ground. 
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity. – At a far and medium range from me the sounds are overwhelming and I can hardly stand to be in this space but it is almost calming to have the ever so soft pattern of my footsteps on the young grass buds beneath me.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”. – Paralyzing 
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try to figure out what sounds make up this environment and which of those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment to stay intact. – Drone of fans, helicopter, grass footsteps