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Field Recording #3
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Location:  Outside Alliance Hall — February 18, 2013, 2:05 pm

 

Sounds heard: A fire alarm has just started going off inside the dormitory, and I am standing outside in the crowd of displaced students, some of whom can be heard at the beginning of the sound bite making light-hearted conversation about classes.  At times, the blaring of the alarm can be heard only faintly, but the doors to the building sporadically open to admit firefighters and public safety officers, at which point the alarm becomes much louder.  The final sound is that of the wind blowing against the building, as the plateau outside Alliance Hall functions as a fairly strong wind tunnel.  At the end of the sound bite, one student can be heard asking if another is “ok,” to which his comrade responds, “Yeah, I’m just cold.”

Field Recording #3
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Location: In my room on my computer.
Sounds heard: Skyping with my parents, they were playing around with the camera and this had some sort of effect on the sound system, causing them to sound like demon chipmunks on my end of the conversation. Thought it made for a perfect field recording so I taped it on my phone. Sounds heard include their voices, during and after demonization, and my voice when I’m laughing and wondering what happened.

 

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Identify the location of the clip – I got a lifeproof case for Christmas for my Iphone. A lifeproof case is completely waterproof and so I decided to do something entirely new and different. This field recording is taken from inside my shower stall with my phone placed on the soap holder.

Identify the sounds heard in the clip – The first sound that you can hear is the background noise of the water hitting the bottom of the shower floor and then the ting of me setting my phone down on the soap holder. You can then proceed to hear me rinse my hair and the surges of water drop and hit the shower floor. As the recording continues you can hear me fill my hands with water and then drop it to the floor. At the end the water is shut off and you can only hear it drip off of my body adn then the shower curtain opened. The final noise is me grabbing my towel and drying off which is a lower “boomy” noise. Overall the sound is very tinny and echoey because I am in the shower stall and the tiles of the walls reflect the high frequency of the sound waves as the water hits the ground.  

Field Recording #2
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Location: Sushi Ya Restaurant, Garden City, New York — February 14, 2013, 10:14 pm

 

Sounds heard: general “happy human” sounds, i.e. a euphony of lovebirds chatting in the small room, with the exception of the couple at the table next to ours, who can be heard bickering (“I’m not shallows, don’t call me shallow.”)  Stephen and I tease each other with phony, hackneyed expressions of love (“Your eyes are like limpid pools of…”)  At one point, Stephen begins explaining to me the concept of moshing at a concert, and two waiters can be heard nearby speaking a foreign language to one another.

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Walking from the Adams Playhouse to Hofstra Hall, 11:03PM, 2/14/13

Sound of cart being wheeled across the sidewalk, sounds of me tripping slightly, sort of silence (We were talking in Drama 16 about how effective the absence of light can be in a lighting design, so I decided to try it with sound instead of light in a field recording. I took my recording purposely during a time when there is little to no sound to see how the absence of sound affects the sounds that can be heard)