Journal

Location: In the house

Sounds closest: My phone playing music (I had left it on upon writing this)

Medium sound: My mom on the phone in the other room and shuffling with the dishes, my dogs playing

Low sound, the Television on a soft volume, my 3rd dog snoring softly in her bed

Journal Entry #6

Outside of the Wellness Center (4/24/26, 11am)

Farthest – Basketball ball bouncing, car alarm going off, sirens of firetruck

Medium- sirens of the police officers, commercial buildings truck opening up

Closest – people chatting, the smoke alarm going off in the building, music playing

Sound Level – High

Description – Emergency

Essential Sounds – smoke alarm, sirens of firetruck/ police officers, music playing

Journal 7

04/23/26

Captain’s Field, 6 pm

Farthest: Cars driving past, audience shouting, cheering

Medium: flag football players running, ref yelling, whistles

Close: team members cheering, speaker playing music

Sound Level: Loud

Description: Excited anticipation

Essential sounds: Cheering, audience shouting, players running, whistles, speakers playing music, team members cheering

Journal Entry #7

4/24/26–1:02pm—Doughnut Plant, Brooklyn

Farthest: cars honking, cars driving past

Medium: Coffee machines, coins clinking, music over speakers, air conditioning running

Close: wrapper crinkling, conversation, footsteps

Sound Level: medium

Description: Pleasantly busy

Essential sounds: coffee machine, coins clinking, conversation

 

Journal Entry #7

1. 9/23/26, 9pm, NFL Draft party

2. Air conditioning, cars outside, oven in kitchen turning on

3. Front door opening, bottles being opening, bags of chips rustling, couch springs creaking

4. TV playing ESPN, people near me hooting and hollering, music from bluetooth speaker

5. Sound level is high, lots of different things happening among the bunch of people in the room

6. Overwhelming

7. Essential sounds are the TV, people hooting and hollering at it, and the bottles.

Field Recording #5

Location: Outside Hofstra Hall late at night

Sounds: Cars/Trucks driving down the turnpike, Trucks beeping (possibly reversing?), Wind, Walking, then there’s that really eerie sound (that night there was construction happening on the turnpike, they were repaving the road, I saw later there were steamrollers on the road, but I couldn’t figure out what was making that metal rubbing sound)