Location: A friend’s car, driving across campus
Sounds: The car speeding up and slowing down, a jacket moving repeatedly, people shifting positions, the driver’s shoes squeaking on the brakes and accelerator, muffled laughter, keys jingling quietly, windshield wipers
Sounds heard: distant voices and laughter, plastic containers opening, rustling and clanking of items on the metal table, light breeze, birds chirping.
disclaimer: voices on the video have consented to be recorded in advanced.
Location: Bench in front of Davidson Hall
Sounds: Airplane flying overhead, Students going to next class, Bike rack/Lock, Door Opening and Closing
Location: Merrick Avenue Athletic Center – volleyball courts
Sounds Heard: Shoes squeaking on the floor, volleyballs hitting arms, hands, and bouncing off the floor with varying intensity. Close female voices yelling and communicating, far male voices also yelling and laughing (all reverberating in the space). Footsteps thudding across the plastic flooring, some closer than others.
Location: Shore of Long Beach, New York
Sounds heard: Small ocean waves, big ocean waves, sand grinding against the speaker, sweater rubbing against speaker.
Location: Hofstra University, just outside Emily Lowe Hall
Sounds Heard: the Hofstra shuttle breaking then passing by, the Hofstra gardeners raking the leaves
Location: 224 Lenox living room Time: 10 PM
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When I started my observation I was the only one in the room and was mostly hearing everything upstairs that was very faint and far away and then as it went on more and more people joined in the living room and then we started playing games and it progressively got louder and more lively
Descriptors: lively but calm
Essential Sounds
1. February 12, 12:00pm, Film Set in a Dinner
2. People chatting in a corner about the next shot for set, cars driving down the street, the hum of the heater running
3. The hum of the appliances (mainly fridge), actors practicing their lines, people walking by me and the squeaking of their shoes
4. The rubbing of my jacket in the booth, my heavier breathing and stuffy nose
5. It can get loud when people are debating in the corner or when they are walking by, but it’s generally at a medium level. The most consistent sound level is the appliances running.
6. Hectic
7. Fridge hum, director talking with actors, steps of people frantically walking to grab/move equipment
February 10th, 1:00am–Estabrook Dorm, 12th Floor
Farthest Away: The sound of cars vrooming a couple streets away.
Medium Range: People screaming outside of HofUSA on their way home from party. The Night Shuttle speeding over speed bumps and the squeak of the breaks as it rolls through a stop sign.
Closest: The cutting in and out sound of my roommate’s phone that’s playing TikToks and the hum of my refrigerator that sits at the foot of my bed.
Sound Level: The sounds in the dorm were quiet and would be drowned out from the voices outside that seemed to echo as they spilled into my dorm.
Sound Activity: The sound was inconsistent and came in loud spirts. There would be random screams that would out of nowhere and then it would go back to the quiet sounds from my roommate’s phone and the refrigerator.
Description: Lively
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