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1. 1/31/14 8:30am my dorm room

2. I can hear the muffled sounds of distant traffic. It is the more gentle sound of tires on pavement, rather than engines or horns.

 

3. My roommate’s white noise generating fan is on. It creates a constant softening and deadening of all other noises. I can also hear the shower running, just on the other side of the wall. The dripping water changing pitch occasionally.

 

4. The whir of my laptop’s fan is higher pitched and harsher than the white noise fan, almost as though the sound clashes with itself, but of similar volume and consistency. When I move my arm, I can hear the sound of my skin brushing against the sheets of my bed.

 

5. For Hofstra campus, it is quite quiet and calm. Yet there is definitely noise, it is the consistency and soft quality of those noises that allows it to seem quiet.

 

6. routine

 

7. white noise fan, shower, computer fan.

Journal Entry #1
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1. 1/30/14, 9:58 pm, Dorm Room

2. Identify sounds farthest from you:

  • Cars passing by outside
  • Music coming from the room above mine

3. Identify sounds coming from medium range:

  • Swords Clashing from the common room where my roommate is playing Skyrim
  • Music from my suite-mates room coming through the wall next to me

4. Identify sounds closest to you:

  • The humming of the heater next to my bed
  • The humming coming from my laptop fan
  • The sound of my bed squeaking as I shake my foot

5. General sound level and activity:

The sound level is very calm and peaceful.  There is definitely a lot of activity but nothing is too loud and overtaking other sounds.  There is a balance.

6. One word to describe the sound environment: Calm

7. Three essential sounds from the environment:

  • The swords from Skyrim
  • The humming of the heater
  • The music from my suite-mates room

Sound Journal 1 – The Endless Creaking
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1. 1/29/2014, 1:08 AM, Home on Front St.

2. Identify the sounds farthest from you: Four housemates upstairs, their muffled voices above my ceiling. They laugh and scream with excitement, not a care in the world. I hear very faint music as well, so faint, in fact, I’m not quite sure what it is. The water in the sink upstairs goes on occasionally and reminds me our water pressure is harsh when the facet is turned up high and tonight, it seems to roar like thunder.

3. Identify the sounds at medium range: As the housemates joke around and enjoy themselves, I hear the sounds of a loud, squishy mattress, on a rickety, old hardwood floor. The floor creaks beneath them every time they jump off the bed and walk down the hall to another room, and I can hear it ALL from my room down below.

4. Identify the sounds closest to you: The vaguely rhythmic clicking of the radiators in my room as the heat attempts to warm this frigid night. Someone is in the bathroom outside my room. The water from the faucet is much softer and I hear the opening and closing of the medicine cabinet.

5. General sound level and activity: It feels rather chaotic in the house tonight. It seems I’m the only person with homework. The feeling seems to intensify with every creaky footstep, every rustle in the bed above my head, every muffled laugh. Even the heater in my room seems to tease me by assuring me I’ll get no silence tonight. While most of the sounds are muffled through the ceiling and the walls, they are all too familiar and are indicative of an active, loud house of college students. The sound of every footstep on the old hardwood is like nails on a chalkboard. The worst.

6. One word to describe the sound environment: Distracting.

7. 3 essentials sounds to the sound environment: The creaking hardwood above me, the constant clicking of the radiator in my room, the near constant rustling, tossing in the bed in the room above me.