Location: NAB Light Booth, 7:20pm, 4/11/2013
Sounds: Faint vacuum sound, clicking of mouse and keys on a keyboard, Courtney coughing and shuffling her position around in her chair. The loneliness and lack of excitement of the light booth as we wait for rehearsal to start in contrast to the excitement of the vacuuming and last minute set touch-ups going on below us
Identify the location of the clip – This recording was taken as I was walking from the student center to my room during the torrential downpour
Identify the sounds heard in the clip – This clip starts out with me holding my phone up in the wire frame of my umbrella in the middle of a torrential spring downpour. Shortly after the clip begins one can hear the sound of a very loud and deep thunder clap across the campus as I walked into the unispann. From here you can hear a bunch of voices murmuring of all the people that are waiting out the storm. Their voices have a small echo to them and fill the space as I walk through it. From here you can hear me shake out my umbrella of all the excess water and begin to walk across the unispann. The rest of the clip is of me walking across the unispann and passing different groups of people as they discover the storm outside.
Location: A House on Longwood Dr, Syracuse, NY — March 29, 2013, 2:30 pm
Sounds Heard: This field recording is fairly straightforward — my friend is playing the piano in the living room of his house while I get ready upstairs. I didn’t know he could play the piano at all, and he hadn’t announced his intent to play — so the sudden onset of beautiful music came as a total surprise to me, and I had the instant need to pull out my phone and record the moment. The house is fairly open, not divided up by a bunch of walls and closed doors, so the sound of the piano can be heard bouncing off the walls and filling the space.
Location: At the Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne or World Irish Dancing Championships in Boston over spring break, hearing some of the results. My boyfriend’s family is very affiliated with the Irish step world, so I went along to support.
Sounds heard in the clip: Man reading off the scores of the competitors in a very thick Irish accent, random background chatter can be heard. I thought his accent was worth recording and sharing!
Identify the location:
Yankee Stadium, Yankees Vs. Red Sox, Third game of the season
Identify the sounds:
You hear dull clapping and cheering, which suddenly intensified and is joined by screams. Immediately following that is the classic, “The Yankees Win,” announcement, which, of course, is followed by Sinatra’s famous New York, New York. You can also hear my mom singing along to the song and people talking and singing in the background.
