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Sound Observation – Bar Social
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Sound Observation – Bar Social 10pm

Georgia Andre

– Date/Time/Location

– 5/3/2012/ 10pm /Bar Social (across the turnpike from Hofstra)

2- Describe sound far away

People talking around the bar, loud music

3- Identify and list the sounds at medium range from you

– People talking around my table, loud music

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you.

– Me chewing thai calimari, the sound of chopsticks falling/clinking/rubbing together in the process of eating the calimari,  the sound of my glass placed on the table, my friend talking to me, and the loud music playing Gotye “somebody that I used to know ” (which really makes me feel depressed about my breakup).

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

-Its a smaller room but I’m sitting in the less crowded eating area… still a loud busy sound level with a combo of talking and music and glasses.

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

– BUZZ

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

– Glasses, Loud Music, Talking

Journal Entry #13
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1. Phoenix house Chinese restaurant   5/2/12  8:30 pm

2. The sounds farthest away from me are food sizzling in a pan and a person chopping food.

3. The sounds at a medium range are the cash register opening and people ordering food and talking about the menu.

4. The sounds closest to me are the children of the owners speaking Chinese and running around.

5. The general sound level is loud.

6. I would describe the sound environment as “energetic”.

7. Three sounds essential to the sound environment are the food cooking, people ordering food, and the people talking in Chinese.  The restaurant is like its own little world.

Journal Entry #13
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Date: May 3, 2012

Time: 2:00 am

Location: Undergrad Cabaret, Spiegel Theater

 

Farthest Noises: The doors opening and closing, thunder, rain

Medium Noises: Bionca crying, people laughing, people wispering

Closes Noises: Chris talking on stage

 

General sound: A contained roar

Envionrment: Drunk and emotional

3 Noises: Chris talking, Bionca crying, people wispering

Journal Entry #12
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Date: April 26, 2012

Time: 4:45pm

Location: Hallway of the music department in the NAB

 

Farthest Noises: A copy machine, a phone ringing, people talking

Medium Noises: Piano, someone singing, people laughing

Closes Noises: My sheet music shuffling, my breathing

 

General Sounds: Quiet

Environment: Busy

3 Noises: Piano, someone singing, the copy machine

 

Sound Journal 13
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1- 2012-05-02 at 7:41 PM

Sitting backstage at Measure For Measure rehearsal during Blackbird’s run

– Sit, close eyes and allow the sounds around you to envelope you, listen for all of the sound in your environment.

2- Lines, yelling on stage, heard both from the door as well as the intercom in the dressing rooms
3- Low conversations in the dressing room, Jesse doing his warmups nearby.
4- Air Conditioning unit above me, girl next to me turning pages as she reads
5- It’s all backstage voices.  slight nervousness for the dress rehearsal, but certainly not the nervousness of a performance.  The noise from the stage ranges with the emotion of the scene.
6- Backstage
7- Hushed whispers, yelling from stage, pages turning next to me.

Journal Entry #11
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1- 4/25 -9pm-Wing Night

2- Music playing, people talking/singing along
3- People at the table next to us, sound of people drinking/eating
4- MaryKate, Chloe, Katie talking, sound of forks on plates, glasses clinking
5- Loud, constant
6- festive
7- Music, people talking, glasses clinking