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Journal Entry 1 (2/11/22)
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Date: February 11th, 2022

Location and Time: Hempstead, NY (home), 1:00 pm

Far Sounds: light wind, occasional car passing, a man’s voice singing casually (muffled)

Medium Sounds: heavy footsteps upstairs, creaking floorboards, doors periodically squeaking, shutting, and clicking, a vacuum running

Close Sounds: voices on zoom, clacking keyboard, whirring computer

Sound Description/Level: relatively quiet, most sounds are only occasional

One Word: domestic

Most Important Sounds: the clacking keyboard, the footsteps, the singing, the voices

JOURNAL ENTRY 1- Jaden
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location: back of the student center in parking lot

Far sounds: college student running to cross the stree, theres still salt and dust on the ground so you can hear it being kicked and pushed around as he runs. Cars are also going fast in the distance too and you can hear the engine running and being loud.

Medium sounds: cars going over speed bumps and tires rolling on the concrete.

close sounds: wind blowing and cars passing by over and over trying to find a parking spot. The sound of footsteps are also there too.

Sound description/level: sounds more like an empty parking lot but the sound itself was distant and far but very noticeable.

Important sounds: The foot steps, loud cars in distance

 

JOURNAL ENTRY 1 – GEORGE
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Date: February 10th, 2022

Location & Time: The Drounge, 2:03pm

Far sounds: A female-sounding voice is singing in their MUTH class. The song might be “Come to Your Senses” from tick, tick…boom! There are cheers, laughter, and piano coming from that room.

Medium sounds: Footsteps going up and down stairs, doors opening and closing in Lowe.

Close sounds: people typing on keyboards, soft humming, costume carts rolling through the hall.

Sound description/level: Low, quiet but not library quiet. Good volume for getting work done in peace.

One word for the “sound environment”: mellow

Important sounds: distant singing, typing on a keyboard, humming

JOURNAL ENTRY 6 – ALEXANDRA
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May 1st, 2021 Location: bedroom Time: 5:38pm 

Far Sounds: someone’s car alarm is going off down the street, ice cream truck drove by just a second ago too

Medium Sounds: the small thuds of my housemate’s cat running up and down the stairs

Close Sounds: my space heater growling, my nose sniffling from crying, you can’t hear them, but my thoughts are very loud 

Sound Description/Level: Suburban kind of atmosphere, pretty quiet except for the occasional spike in volume here and there 

Important Sounds: the car alarm, the cat, the sniffles

FIELD RECORDING 5 – ALEXANDRA
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I’m sorry, Rych. It’s been a very difficult past few days. 

May 1st 2021 Location: Upstairs Hallway of Hope Street 

Sounds: me using my “cutie animal voice” to try and get the cat to come here, Berlioz meowing, Berlioz chomping down on some treats, the shaking and rattling of the treats in the box 

Field Recording #6 – Dylan Pojano
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Location: On a field that is between the Field Hockey Field and the parking lot with the Three Bears Statue. Basically where I did last weeks field recording.

Sounds: Through the large amount of gusting winds and rain, I moved around a rusty old commercial-grade irrigation sprinkler. It creaks and irks as the metal tries to glide across itself, attempting to reclaim the glory days for when it used to with ease. Eventually, from all the moving around, the chain that was on it falls and what was holding it bounces up and down for a bit. I move the rusty chain around itself for a bit, and then I leave it alone entirely, so it may return to its dormant sleep.

Field Recording #6 – Ash Boone
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My friends and I (Brennan, Tori, Arianna, and Dianté) sitting in the Bread Box (Brennan’s car) in the parking garage of Roosevelt Field Mall on the evening of Free Pretzel Day at Auntie Anne’s. I intended to record just the sounds of the parking garage, but a spider had entered the car and landed on me and Brennan lost it. Tori is cracking up, Arianna is wondering if I had started recording yet, and Dianté is jamming to music.