Time: Sunday, February 27th, 3:08pm

Location: my desk inside my room, the basement of my house

Far Sounds: two voices talking upstairs, someone watching something on TV in the living room, a big truck driving past the house

Medium Sounds: the dryer running, someone in the shower down the hall

Close sounds: my essential oil diffuser running, “Gypsy” by Fleetwood Mac playing quietly from my bluetooth speaker

Sound Description/Level: very typical weekend afternoon sounds, the house is quiet because most people are catching up on work from the week, its very few noises happening and all at very low noise level, lazy and kind of sleepy sounding environment

One Word Description: calm

Most important sounds: the music from my speaker, the dryer

Location: Lowe 106

Far sounds: Chatter in the hallway, typing on computer keys, the unscrewing on a metal water bottle, 

Medium sounds: Thuds on the floor across the room, scraping of chair across hall from me, sparse clunking of piano keys, jingle of keys 

Close sounds: voices of those rehersing in the room, loud thuds of booted footsteps near my chair, 

Sound description/level: Wide variety of soft and loud/sounds. Some softer sounds I found to be more prominent and interesting than the loud, closer ones. There were so many different, varying sounds it was hard to take them all in. It reminded me of a busy street- no extrmely loud noises but the sheer amount of sounds made it feel louder and more intense. 

One word for the environment: Barrage

Important sounds: Voices from those rehersing in the room, thud of boots on the ground, loud chatter from the hallway outside

Date: February 25th, 2022

Time and Place: my bedroom, 2:02 pm

Close sounds: the TV on, the sound of my typing, the wind, a candle flickering

Medium sounds: cars outside the window, footsteps overhead from someone walking upstairs, a chair scraping outside the bedroom door

Far sounds: a neighbor doing maintenances, cars pulling into the parking lot across the street

Important sounds: the TV, the wind, my own typing

Sound description/level: medium, there are plenty of sounds being heard but not so much that it would be called noisy or loud.

One word for the “sound environment”: mundane

Location: Hofusa parking lot in my car

Far sounds: Airplane in the distance flying and cars parking nearby

medium sounds: the wind blowing all over and people playing frisbee in the background

close sounds: the car beeping and the Air on

sound description/level: The sound outside was loud and aggressive because it was super windy but It was also very much relaxing when you really listened to the sounds surronding the windy weather.

One word for the environment: windy/aggressive

Important sounds: Car beeping, plane flying over, frisbee playing in the background

Location: in the living room at home, 9:00pm

• four friends chatting
• TV on in the background (The Big Flower Fight)
• Someone walking to and from the kitchen
• Utensils being sorted in the kitchen
• A drawer being shut loudly in the next room
• A water bottle being set down on a table
• Typing on a computer

Taken in the hall way near the downstairs kitchen in my house 

• running water of sink
• trickle of water into a recently flushed toilet bowl
• music playing from a speaker
• clattering of silverware
• stomp of a shoe
• housemates voice drifting over music
• shifting of dishes in the sink