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1.  4/27/12 at 12am in the common room at the end of my dorm room floor

2.  The sounds furthest from me are people talking in the hall and the elevator doors closing.

3.  The sounds at medium range to me are the closing of doors and people walking in the halls that are talking to one another.

4.  The sounds closest to me are my laptop humming and the air conditioner unit.

5.  The sound level is a bit loud because there is an echo in the room.  Because of the echo, it is making the sounds closest to me more noticeable

6. Noticeable

7.  Three sounds that are essential to the environment are the air conditioner unit, laptop humming, and the doors shutting in the hall.

Sound Observation – Student Center 7AM
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Sound Observation – Student Center 7AM

Georgia Andre

– Date/Time/Location

– 4..26-12 / 7am /Student Center

2- Describe sound far away

Automatic door oopening and closing, garbage cans being pushed, food carts being pushed

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

– The TV news, the gate opening and closing to the food area

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you.

– My laptop playing music, my fingers typing

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

-Its a large room so the sound gets echoed and spread out a little everywhere, the sound level increases tas the time gets later and more chatter is heard

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

– Busy

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

– TV, Carts being pushed, People talking

Journal Entry #12
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1. 4/22/12  Internship office

2. The sounds farthest away from me are my two supervisors chatting in their office and the sound of the coffee machine brewing.

3. The sounds at a medium distance from me are a girl coughing, two people talking about Game of Thrones, and people laughing.

4. The sounds closest to me are the girl next to me talking on the phone, people from neighboring cubicles typing, and my stomach growling.

5. The sound level is somewhat low and sporadic.

6. I would describe this sound environment as “engrossed”.

7. Three sounds essential to the sound environment are the people typing, the coffee machine brewing, and people talking nearby.  Everyone is being productive but having fun at the same time.

Sound Journal 12
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1- 2012-04-26 at 3:12 PM
Inside Bits & Bites

2-kitchen noises from the burger place in the back, cashier ringing up food.
3- Conversation around the building, general food noises
4- The Peoples’s Court, Rain, ceiling fan above my head
5- It’s not busy in there, but the people are still rather loud for how many there are.  There is nobody sitting especially nearby so there is a bit of distance from it all, except for the TV.

6- Dining
7- Television, Conversations, Cashier

Sound Journal 11
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1- 2012-04-09, sitting on the National Mall in front of the National Gallery

DATE-TIME-LOCATION of the sound environment

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

2- Siren, Construction
3- Traffic, people walking, talking, running, cycling.
4- My girlfriend talking about something unimportaint
5- The place is busy— not the bustle of New York, and not even the energy of some of the streets, but there a lot of people moving around, visiting the Smithsonian and enjoying the beautiful Easter Monday.
6- hubub
7- Construction, #Allofthepeople, Girlfriend.