Furthest sound from me: people chatting at the opposite side of the student center
Medium range: the two different songs playing by Brooklyn Slice
Closest: the sound of me typing up my notes for the day
Sound Level: medium
Word(s): casual evening
3 essential sounds: Music, keyboard clacking, and distant talking
02/09/2023 4pm – My Dorm Room
The sounds the furthest away from me are cars honking out on the turnpike and some people yelling
Medium Range sounds include the birds, and a couple of people walk by down below
Closest Sounds are my heater running, the sheets of my bed moving as I shift around, and someone walking down the hallway outside of my room
It’s extremely quite all things aside. The heater can be decently loud, but other than that there isn’t much going on
One Word: Peaceful
Most Important Sounds: people outside, cars, heater
Tuesday Feb 6th, 8:15PM
Sounds heard: women struggling and counting. People coughing and laughing. The sounds of the wind and cars from outside. Chatter every once in a while and scattered laughter is heard. As the counting goes on, it gets louder and more intense.
Sounds farthest from me: cars driving by
Sounds medium range to me: The chattering and comments
Sounds closest to me: The coughing and counting
Description word: organized yet relaxed
Essential sounds: the counting, the laughing, coughing, and comments made. This allows the audience to know that even though there is organized counting, it is still in a relaxed environment.
Date: 2/9 6:51, my upstairs living room
Farthest away from me: My downstairs housemates talking in their kitchen
Medium range: My refrigerator humming in the kitchen and my upstairs housemate’s desk chair creaking a few times per minute
Closest to me: My keyboard clacking as I type and my occasional sniffling. My other housemate typing on her phone and clearing her throat
The sound level is very quiet. My other 2 housemates are out of the house and everyone is sort of decompressing from the day on their own in different parts of the house.
One word: Mundane
3 essential sounds: Chatter of the downstairs housemates, the fridge, and my housemate’s nails as she types her phone.
February 8th, 2024. 9:25am J-Train.
The sounds that are closest to me is a child crying next to me and the train announcement.
The furthest sounds are the cars and trucks and music outside.
The medium distances, I would consider the shuffling and train itself, noises from peoples phones and high schoolers talking.
The sound level is loud and the amount of sounds being created is consistent until the High Schoolers got off.
Word Description: Light Cacophony
Important sounds are talking, train on the tracks, crying child, and the MTA Train Announcer!
Location: Living Room
Sounds: What We Do In the Shadows on the TV, me chuckling at the show, my roommates talking
Location: Monroe Hall Room 213, 5/14/2023
Farthest Sounds: Air conditioner
Medium Sounds: Future President of the Hofbeats speaking at the front of the room, clapping, people singing voice parts
closest sounds: The two lads having a side convo in front of me, me typing
Sound level: Loud, but few individual sounds
Description: Echoing
Important sounds: Clapping, presidential speech, singing
This was recorded at 7:16 in the Spiegel theater during the Alphie awards – you can hear people presenting on stage as well as the crowd laughing at their jokes!
This was recored at 9:37 in my kitchen, you can hear the sound of my housemates playing music and talking in the other room, the stove being turned on and me moving around the kitchen, opening cabinets, setting things on the counter, and making pasta.