Location: Main Dining Room at Bits and Bytes
Sounds Heard: People Talking, People Laughing, Hum of the Fro-Yo Machines, Metal Clanging (from the workers cleaning up), Soft Crunch of Biting into Food, Jangles of Keys
Author Archives: previous-student
Field Recording #2
CV Starr, lecture class
Sounds heard: typing, voices (both muffled and clear) from different areas of lecture hall, crinkling of bag, someone taking a bite of food, soft laughter.
Field Recording 2
Location: Hofstra University, inside the Psibrary
Sounds Heard: people talking to each other in the distance, people speaking softly
Field Recording #2
Location: Commuter Parking Lot
Sounds Heard: Crunching of snow, light footsteps on the sidewalk, the slight crunch of dirt/gravel, cars driving in the distant street, a little bit of ruffling of clothes
Field Recording 2
Date: 3/1/2023
Location: my kitchen
Sounds Heard: plastic container being moved, knife being picked up, food hitting tin foil, footsteps, tin foil rattling, tray sliding into metal rack, air fryer door opening and closing, buttons beeping, air fryer turning on, plastic being placed on the counter, sink turning on and water running.
Journal Entry #2
- 2/26/23 at Dutch Treats at 10:25
- Farthest Away: Cars driving, plane flying
- Medium Range: People chatting outside Hofusa, someone restocking the ice cream, bottles moving in the fridges
- Closest: People talking, bags rustling as people move around, loud footsteps and some running, some of the employees laughing and joking around together
- Sound Level: Not quiet, but not overwhelmingly loud
- Sound Activity: Busy and hurried, but also casual
- One Word: Welcoming
- Essential Sounds: Bags rustling, employees laughing and joking, ice cream restocking
journal #2
Date: 02/26/23
Location: Bedroom @ 10pm
Farthest sounds: Tv on downstairs, Nidhi talking on the phone in the room next-door
Medium Sounds: Caitlin’s phone buzzing, her typing on computer
Closest: Me typing on my computer
Sound Level: very low
One Word: calm
Essential Sound: computer typing
Journal Entry 2
- 02/26/2023 – 8:47 PM – my bedroom
- Far away: Cars on the highway, people talking outside
- Medium: People talking downstairs, a toilet flushing, a sink turning on
- Closest: Someone watching tiktoks, someone walking past my door
- Sound level: relatively low, not much going on
- One word: Tired
- The essential sounds are: TikToks, people passing by in the hall, cars in the distance
Sound Journal 2
Date: 2/24, 5:58pm
Location: Dutch Treats
Far sounds: water running in the kitchen in the back
Medium sounds: rustling of a bag, door opening and closing, beep of the scanner at the register, people walking around shopping
Close sounds: the TV playing loudly (ads, then Star Wars music), the cashiers having a conversation, a staff member answering a phone call, the refrigerated items shelf buzzing, the crinkle of the Uncrustable I’m about to buy
Sound description/level: it’s not a busy time for Dutch but there are a handful of other people so it’s a fairly consistent volume in here. Not loud; you can hear the TV from anywhere inside but it’s not overwhelming, and a few people are talking but when they move away I can’t hear them as clearly
One word: supermarket
Most important sounds: the TV, the cashiers’ conversation, the fridges buzzing
Journal 2
- 02/24/2023 – 5:16 PM – Outside of Vander Poel Hall
- Far away: A car honked, some kind of radio music playing
- Medium: Cars driving by, a car driving very fast, leaves on trees blowing in the wind
- Closest: People having conversations passing by, a cat meow, some birds tweeting
- The sound level is quite low when it is closer to me, but things like the car driving are loud.
- Descriptor: Busy
- The essential sounds are: the car honking, the sounds of cars driving by, leaves blowing in the wind, and the birds tweeting.