Sounds Heard: general chatter, Chris Reilly singing “meow” in a rhythm, the strumming of a guitar, a conversation about favorite music, me saying “I want to hear Isaac,” someone saying “testing” into a microphone, someone playing a guitar and signing, Chris asking if anyone hears a piano
Location: Student Center, back cafeteria Hofstra Concerts Coffee House
Location: 6th Floor, Enterprise Hall
Sounds Heard: The tuning of an electric guitar with some conversation among my residents.
Location of clip: Front yard, my house.
Sounds heard: The John Deere tractor’s engine starting up, followed by my Dad putting the tractor in drive. A whistling noise can be heard while the tractor’s snow blower attachment is throwing large amounts of snow further down the front yard. The sounds of the engine and the whistling start to gradually fade as my Dad drove the tractor farther away from me.
Location: Elevator in Constitution Hall
Sounds Heard: Elevator opening and closing, bells upon arrival, beeps for each floor, scratching, scraping noises of the elevator moving.
Location: My Dorm Room (Alliance Hall) — Thursday, April 25, 2013, 10:14 am
Sounds Heard: My good friend came over to do homework with the night before, and she fell asleep in my room. I woke up early to keep working, and she was breathing very calmly. The way people breathe when they are fully asleep is very interesting, as an automatic body function. I could never fake this rhythm as a kid to convince my mom I was sleeping. I also wanted to test the microphone on my iPhone and see if it would pick up any of the traffic or birds outside. It’s great at picking up soft, close sounds like breathing, but doesn’t seem to catch anything from outside.
(I got her permission to upload a creepy clip of her breathing.)
Bonus Recording!
Location: Social Sports Kitchen — Friday, April 19, 2013, 12:11 am
I was having a few drinks with friends and decided to take out my phone to record the barflies singing along to the music. This clip is funny to me because, without fail, whenever I tell people that I am recording sounds for class, someone says, “Kat, put your shirt back on!” I even used one such recording a couple weeks ago, from my improv rehearsal.
1) 4/23/13, 3:56pm, hallway 1st floor of Lowe, between the doors, drounge, and psibrary.
2) Various actors: Anna, Jesse, Cyndi. Doors swinging open and then shut. Rachel Levi saying goodbye, saying hello to me, then being quiet, a wrapper being opened, someone (Jenna Tanzola?) yelling “Willllll!”, discussion about an open window.
Laundry Room
I was standing in the laundry room, where both washers and dryers were going. There is a faint humming in the background and the most prominent noise is the clicking of most likely something metal inside the dryer. Though the sound is not as clear in this recording as it was in person, I hoped to capture the rhythmic feel that I got standing inside the laundry room.
