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Sound Observation 1
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  1. 1/30/19 at 9 PM; EMT School (15 minute break)
  2. Farthest: Cars, Highway
  3. Medium: The cold wind passing my ears, puffs of a cigarets, doors opening and closing
  4. Close: Conversations of the people around me, foot steps on the wooden walkway, the vending machines
  5. Sound Level: High, a lot of sound activity due to the amount of people outside (20-30)
  6. One word: Populated
  7. Essential sounds: Vending machine, doors opening and closing, foot steps, people conversating

Sound Journal
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Thursday, January 31, 2019 8:54 pm Vanderpoel Hall

-Farthest sounds: cars on Oak Street, wind against the building

-Medium sounds: the chime of the elevator, the people moving around on the floor above, door slamming at the other end of the hall, girls talking in the room next door

-Closest sounds: fingers on a keyboard, the hum of the fridge, my roommate crunching on Cheezits, foot tapping on the floor

Sound level: relatively quiet, but I can feel everyone in the building around me

One word: domestic

Essential sounds: fridge, Cheezits, girls next door

Journal Entry 1
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  1. 1/30/19; 7 PM; The street I live on
  2. Farthest: Planes, Train Horn
  3. Medium: The cold wind blowing through the trees, cars going down the main road
  4. The jingling sound of my dog’s collar, my boots stepping on the pavement, my breathing being heavy due to the cold air
  5. Sound Level: Not too much noise but enough to know that life is all around me.
  6. One word: Suburban
  7. Essential sounds: The wind, the train, dog collar

Journal Entry
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  1. January 31, 2019, 1:45pm, the drounge
  2. Farthest: footsteps, banging
  3. Middle: leg of a table sliding across the floor above, phones falling, doors opening and closing
  4. Closest: people talking and laughing, occasional singing
  5. Sound level: medium
  6. One word: energetic
  7. 3 essential sounds: laughing, singing, doors opening and closing

Journal – Bit’s n Bytes – Chris Z
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1/31/18, 11:02AM, Bit’s n Bytes cafe on South Campus

Farthest away: Food packages being shuffled, the heater running

Medium Range: Clanking of coins being dropped into the register, footsteps scuffing across the floor, beeps of the scanner, bags crinkling, blenders churning

Close Range: People talking, chairs being dragged across the floor, coat zippers clinking on chairs as they are set down.

General sound level is somewhat higher than normal, a lot of sound activity through the wide variety of sounds present.

One-Word Description: Busy

3 essential sounds: Coins, Blenders, People talking (indecipherably)

Journal Entry – Michael DeRosa
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  1. Location: 1/30/19, 11:30am, Division of Student Affairs, Phillips 200
  2. Farthest sounds: background voices in conversation, faint music playing, footsteps on carpet
  3. Medium sounds: hum of air system, doors opening/closing, Keurig system making coffee, printer
  4. Closest sounds: chair creaking, phone ringing, keyboard typing, voices speaking on phone
  5. Sound level is low, there’s a low amount of sound activity
  6. One word description: office
  7. Three essential sounds: phone ringing, printer, keyboard typing

Journal entry
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April 30, 2018 1:30 pm Hagedorn Hall room 100

  • The air conditioner on in the back, people outside our door talking, the printer in the lobby going
  • Classmate talking, My friend coughing, Professor sighing
  • my laptop keys clicking, my stomach rumbling, classmate clicking their pen repeatedly
  • medium noise
  • focused
  • air conditioner, pen clicks, chatter

Journal – Crivelli
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)Location: The quad outside Lowe 4/20/2018 4:20 PM

2)Farthest sounds: Mackenzie yelling my name across by Bits

3)Medium sounds: guys laughing while throwing a frisbee

4)Closets sounds: conversation, footsteps, squirrels

5)Sound level: low

6)Sound intensity: low

7)Three essential sounds: frisbee flying, catching, playing, wind, chatter

8) one word: springtime!