Author Archives: previous-student
Beja Journal Entry:
Date, Time, Location: Friday March 23rd , 2012; 2:30AMish, driving home
Farthest Sounds: no distinct sound
Medium Range Sounds: car engine,
Closets Sounds: wind against moving car, creaking from age of car, slams on the occasional bump in the road, me belting someone like you by Adele with the radio.
Sound Activity (Amount/Level): medium volume
Descriptive Word: intimate
Essential Sounds: car engine, cut through of wind, bumps in road
Sound observation.
- 3/23/12 library 9am
- Clicking of computer keys, printer whirring
- Walking across tile floors, wheeley chairs moving across floor
- Papers rustling, pencil tapping, clicking of someone texting on thir blackberry
- Quiet sound level
- Stressful
- Tapping,clicking,whirring
Field Recording: Birds Chirping at 4AM outside of Enterprise Hall
Field Recording 7
Sound Observation 8
1 – 3/23/12 – 8:19 am – Dorm Room
2- Birds tweeting in the morning
3- the wind blowing
4- my roommate sleeping/breathing
5- pretty quiet
6- morning
7- birds, sleeping, wind
Journal Entry 8
1- 12:30 in the student center waiting for pizza
2- Siren of police car on Hempstead Tpk, somebody using the Pride Print down the hall, main automatic door opening and closing
3- TV running by the main cafeteria, general kitchen noise from CPK, Zombie people running around.
4- Drunk conversations from people who don’t have friday classes, guy next to me slurping a drink.
5- It’s rather annoying here tonight. Too many people moving around. I just want to get my dinner and go home.
6- Obnoxious
7- Zombie people, Kitchen noise, drunk people.
Field Recording #7
Journal Entry #7
1- 3/22/12 – 7:37PM – Mineola Train Station
2- Cars driving by, people talking across the track, Alec Baldwin reminding me to “Watch the gap”
3- Trains speeding by, Beeping from the ATM
4- People talking next to me, footsteps of people walking by me
5- Medium sound level
6- Waiting
7- Trains, cars, people talking
8th Journal Entry
1. Thursday March 22 at 2pm – outside sitting on a table by Bits and Bites
2. The sounds furthest from me are the doors opening and closing to the entrance of bits and bites and people walking
3. The sounds at medium range from me are the girls talking at the table next to me.
4. The sounds that are closest to me are the birds chirping. I was also sitting with my friend, who was on the phone, so I heard her whole conversation as well.
5. The sounds were peaceful. I was pretty much centered on the birds chirping because it was a beautiful day. My friend was not talking too loud and the girls at the table next to us were talking relatively soft as well.
6. Peaceful
7. The sounds that are essential to the environment are the birds chirping, my friend talking, and the girls talking at the table next to us.