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Sound Observation #7
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1) Friday March 9th, 2012 – 12:30p.m. – Bits & Bytes

2) Furthest away were dozens of high schoolers ordering food, clanking plastic trays, and confused Hofstra students chatting.

3)  At Medium range there was even more chatting and scanners reading barcodes, doors opening and closing.

4) Closest to me were a couple of my friends eating , opening soda bottles and talking about how easy it would be to steal food at this precise moment.

5) The sound level is obnoxiously loud.

6) Disarray.

7) Trays and food being moved around, dozens of conversations, each trying to over empower the last, and scanners beeping over and over again.

 

Journal Entry #7
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1- 2012-03-16 1:45 PM
Inside the Liberty study room

2- Footsteps in the boys hall around the corner

3- Hum of vending machine, people were playing foosball very loudly but have now stopped.  TV in the lounge is on but not decipherable from this room.
4- Opera coming from the girl next to me’s headphones, soda next to me bubbling.
5- This sound environnent is strange because it’s full of sounds that are normally louder but aren’t right now, leaving myself feeling distant.  Chelsea (the girl in the room) is asleep, her headphones audible but not blaring loud.  The other sounds are coming from behind a closed door, so they are also barely there.
6- muffled.
7- Opera on the headphones, indecipherable TV, rattle of vending machines.

Journal Entry #7
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1. 3/14/12, 11:00AM, Quad in front of Lowe.

2. Students sitting outside of Bits and Bytes enjoying the sun, a girl squealing, a bike passing.

3. Babies going by in a wagon, the sound of the wagon wheels, students conversing on the stoop of Lowe.

4. The conversation of the people I am sitting with, my pencil scratching my paper, the clicking of my pencil for new lead, music playing from someone’s phone.

5. There is much sound activity, but the sound level is being dissipated into the open.

6. Bright.

7. The students buzzing in front of Bits and Bytes, The babies and the wagons, and the music playing.

Journal Entry #7
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1. 3/14/12   11:15am   Common hour, bench near Roosevelt Hall

2. The sounds farthest away from me are people sitting at the tables talking and laughing.

3. The sounds at a medium distance are birds chirping in a tree and a door to the building in front of me being opened and shut.

4. The sounds closest to me are people walking on the sidewalk/ground, you can hear their shoes shuffling. I also hear my phone receive an email and it makes a little ringing noise.

5. The general sound level is somewhat moderate, and the level remains fairly constant.

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

7. Three sounds essential to the sound environment are the birds chirping, people talking behind me, and the sounds of people walking.  They are common sounds for common hour, when people are going to meetings or relaxing before class in the nice weather.

Journal Entry #7
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1.  March 15th at 11:20 in studio south of WRHU (I was doing my music slot at Hofstra’s radio station.

2. The sounds farthest from me are people talking and laughing outside the studio.

3. The sound at medium range to me is the studio door shutting and someone is writing on the dry erase board outside the studio door. The marker was very squeaky.

4.  The sounds closest to me are my tracker asking me a question and the song playing in the background which was “The Space Between” by the Dave Matthews Band. You can also hear clicking on the computer in the background as I am moving the next song into the selector program on the computer.

5.  It is pretty calm in the studio and quite relaxing.  We are playing what I consider to be good music and my tracker and I are having a good time.

6.  mellow

7.  The sounds that are essential to the environment are obviously the music playing in the background since it is a radio station, my tracker asking me a question about what is going on, and the clicking on the computer.