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Field Recording #2
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Identify the location of the clip – I was sitting in the studio working on my design for one of my characters for 179. The recording is taken at a very close range to my pencil and work surface to enhance the finite sounds that are being created.

Identify the sounds heard in the clip – At first you hear the pencil forming the arm shape of one of my characters. I was struggling with the foreshortening effect needed for his arm. As I drew I was also constantly erasing and redrawing. You can distinctly hear the difference between my pencil on the paper and my eraser and my hand brushing the eraser shavings off of the paper. If you listen very closely you can even hear a slight difference in pencil noises from the beginning to the end as I used a 4H pencil in the beginning and darkened the line at the end with a much softer, 4B pencil.

Journal Entry 3
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1- Date/Time/Location.
2.12.13 / 12:52 / Breslin 112

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
People out in the hallway talking, door closing

3- Identify and list the sounds at medium range from you.
The squeaking of the air conditioner, an unidentified hum

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
Professor speaking, coughing, the rustling of paper

5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
Quiet except for professor, medium-low

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

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.

Professor speaking, squeaking of air conditioner, paper rustling

 

Journal Entry #3
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1) 2/14/13, 10:15am, Dorm Room in Constitution Hall

 

2) Trucks on the road near by, honking, wind blowing through the trees

 

3) Wind rattling the blinds on my window, which is slightly open. Refrigerator humming quietly

 

4) My own typing, breathing

 

5) It is very quiet, but fairly active.

 

6) Tranquil

 

7) Wind, Trucks going by in the distance, rhythm of the window shade tapping

Journal Entry 3
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1- 2/12/13, My dorm room shower, 10:30 P.M. After State of the Union Address

2- TV News Station talking about State of the Union speech, Roommates talking about the speech

3- Smooth Jazz pandora radio station being played from an ipod in the bathroom, water running through pipes in the walls

4- Water splashing against shower walls, water rushing through shower head

5- Dull and muffled outside the bathroom, the bathroom gave the sounds within an echoing effect. If I focused on the sound of the water in the shower I couldn’t hear anything else, but if I focused on sounds other than the water I still heard the water of the shower just as easily.

6- Resonant. The news and my roommates were reflecting on the speech that happened prior, resonating in a figurative sense, and the sounds in the bathroom resonated, literally, withing the bathroom itself.

7- Water from the showerhead, the News, sound of splashing water

Field Recording #2
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Location: Walking to class, from my house on Duncan Road to Emily Lowe Hall.
Sounds heard in the clip: The very satisfying sound of crunching a light layer of snow under my snow boots. The tempo is pretty fast and consistent and it is a constant sound in the clip. A car beep and a car starting are more specific sounds that follow, as well as occasional spurts of wind toward the end.

Journal Entry #3
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1. Wednesday, February 13th – 9:03 AM – Breslin 100

2. The heater in the front of the room making a spitting noise, the door opening and closing consistently, the creaking of the chairs in the room any time someone shifts their position

3. People talking on the other side of the room and behind me.

4. The fan on my laptop whirring, the crinkling of plastic wrap as someone unwraps their breakfast

5. The sound level is fairly high, as actors have a lot of energy and are surprisingly talkative in the morning. There are lots of different elements in the overall sound activity, but in general it doesn’t sound too busy.

6. Energetic

7. Talking, the door opening and closing, the crinkling of plastic

Journal Entry 3
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1- February 11, Res Hall Lounge, 5:45pm

2- Footsteps upstairs and down the hall, but very little going on “further away” in the sound environment

3- Pan sizzling in the kitchen, music playing and female singing along in harmony, cupbards closing with a bump and utensils being set down

4- HVac humming softly, the chatter of a group of  people standing around waiting to leave for dinner – they are waiting for a few more people, but complaining idly that they are taking too long, shuffling, putting on shoes and coats, etc.

5- The general sound level is at a warm buzz and the sound activity is at perhaps a medium high – even though there isn’t a ton going on the atmosphere is active.

6- Animated

7- Music playing in the kitchen, the pan sizzling and the overlapping conversations of the waiting people

Journal #3
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1- 2/9/13 – 2:05 AM – My dorm room
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you. – As I laid down on my bed the furthest noise from me that I could hear an identify was the sound of the elevator cables pulling the few night owls back up to their rooms in Enterprise hall. It was a deep and mechanical noise that did not fluctuate in tone or intensity but varied in length. It is a sound I hear often. A little bit closer to me but still outside of my room I could hear the sound of someone in the bathroom taking a shower. The high-pitched noise of water running through the plumbing was traveling through our walls and very faintly and sporadically I could hear the sound of water falling and splattering on the shower floor. 
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.  – Within my room but at the far corner from me I could hear the deep breathing of my roommate who was fast asleep with his computer on his lap. It was a sound of normal breathing and not snoring but was much deeper than a normal breath. It is a noise of breathing that people very easily can identify with sleep. Just hard enough to imply that he was tired and unbothered by the other activity around us.
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant). – Closest to me on my left side is the whistling and humming of the wind from the Nor’easter against my window pane. It was a very random and sporadic pace of wind that seemed to be blowing in all directions. Every so often I would hear tiny ice pebbles plow into my window and make the sound similar to that of a rainstick when it is turned upside down. Occasionally the wind would get very deep and powerful and at other times it would seem high-pitched as if it was blowing quickly and parallel to my window pane.   
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity. – the loudest noise to me from my location was the sound of the wind. It was rather noisy and powerful. The rest of the noises were only loud enough to hear if you were paying attention otherwise they would simply blend into the background and become ambient noise as I drifted off to sleep.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”. – Harmonious 
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try and 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. – Wind, Snoring, Ice pebbles against window