Location: my backyard
Sounds Heard: various bird calls, wind in the trees, rain, water hitting metal gutter, cars driving by, wind blowing into microphone.
Author Archives: previous-student
Field Recording #4
Location: Bill of Rights, Floor 10 lounge
Sounds heard: TV announcements, coughs, clapping, talking in unison and overlapping over each other, bodies shuffling.
Journal Entry #4
April 2nd, 9:00pm – Back Room of Hof U.S.A.
Farthest Away: Squeaking of the Milkshake Machine
Medium Range: The beeping of the beepers a couple tables away.
Closest: People talking tables away from. People laughing. Maya blowing her nose.
Sound Level: Mostly a medium level of constant. Occasionally when there is more background noise, people’s conversations would get louder, so the sound level would be higher.
Sound Activity: Inconsistent. Conversations go in and out as well as the machines the workers were using. Also, Maya wasn’t blowing her nose for two minutes straight.
Description: Social
Essential Sounds:
- People’s Conversations
- People Laughing
- Maya Blowing her Nose
Sound Journal #4
1- DATE-TIME-LOCATION of the sound environment
April 2nd, 12:24pm, Hofstra’s Student Center.
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
Furthest: Footsteps, talking between people, kitchen materials clanging from inside the food hub, beeps from the register, plastic utensils flying out of the dispensary.
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
Medium: Closer conversations droning in and out, Starbucks orders being called out, people swiping cards, footsteps walking next to my table.
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
Closest: Friends at my table talking, plastic utensils hitting plastic dishes, chewing, laughing, chairs scraping against the tile floor.
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
Sound level is generally very loud with a few moments where the volume lulls. There is large amount of sound activity as people are bustling in and out of the building, making food orders and being social amongst themselves.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
One Word Description: Bustling.
7- Essential Sounds:
- Multiple conversations happening at the same time
- Chairs scraping on tile floor
- Footsteps
Journal Entry #4
Bill of Rights Kitchen – 4/1/23 – 10:48pm
Far sounds: People Talking, Rain, Heater hum
Medium Sounds: Stove Fan, door opening/closing
Close sounds: Water running, scrubbing on dishes(with scrub daddy), paper towel dispenser, shoes brushing on tile floor, dishes clinking metal sing
Sounds level: Medium
One Word: Clean
Most Important: Water running, sponge scrubbing, stove fan
Journal Entry
Date: 3/29/23
Location: Hauser Hall room 109, Psychopathology course
Far sounds: Typing of people at front of room, central heating/air blowing, people sniffling
Medium sounds: Professor lecturing, professor’s shoes on the linoleum, questions and voices from classmates
Close sounds: My own typing, my chair creaking
Sound description/level: Quiet, focused sound, revolving around the sound of the lecture currently being given by the professor. She is speaking loudly and clearly but the rest of the class and classroom is understandably silent.
One word: Focused
Most important sounds: Typing, professor lecturing, air from the vent blowing
Sound Journal #4
1. 3/31/23 in Tilburg House in C Square
2. Farthest Away: The oven clicking as it heats up, people talking a few tables away, people walking around
3. Medium Range: The sound of air coming through the hood above the stove, a clock ticking
3. Closest: My friend preparing to make cookies, a plastic bowl falling on the floor, my friend laughing and talking to me
4. Sound Level: Soft
5. Sound Activity: Pretty calm and infrequent
6. One Word: Relaxing
7. Essential Sounds: The sound of air in the hood above the stove, my friend talking, and the people talking a few tables away
Journal entry 4
Location: 3/31/2023, 5:12 bedroom
Furthest sounds: cars driving down hempstead turn pike, further cars driving in the distance, cars honking, engines revving, semi trunks hissing and stopping
medium: car doors being closed, cars going over the metal plate in the road near my house, the popeyes drive throw window worker talking about combos, my roommate playing loud rock music in the basement.
closest: the sound of the youtube video about black holes i am watching, me typing on my computer
sound level: loud but not busy
description: relaxing
essential sounds: car honks, loud basement music, youtube video
Journal 03/31/2023
- 03/31/2023 – 4:06 PM – the Back area where I work
- Far away: the store music playing
- Medium: the manager typing, someone using a hammer
- Closest: a chair moving around, a toilet flushed, someone shuffling through boxes
- The sound level is low.
- Descriptor: Preparing
- Essential sounds: the shuffling of boxes and the store music playing
Journal Entry #4
- Friday March 31st @3:25PM: inside the ceramic studio office
- I can hear the faint sounds of voices from the class happening in the ceramic studio and the sliding of the metal stools across the cement floor.
- The sinks running and the hum of the kiln room fan
- Closest to me I can hear footsteps as people walk by the office doors as well as the sound of the door opening and closing.
- There is a fair amount of activity but it is still relatively quiet – just a lot of ambient noise interspersed with voices
- Liminal
- The hum of the fan is essential, as are the distant voices and metal stools. I think what’s key in creating the environment is way in which they overlap and give the sense that there is something happening in the other room but not here. Like when you fall asleep on the couch next to a room full of people.