Category Archives: Journal Entry

Journal Entry 6
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  1. Time and Place: HofUSA, 10:10pm, 4/24
  2. Farthest: metal scraping/clanging together, blending / humming sounds
  3. Medium: music playing over speakers
  4. Closest: people talking, footsteps
  5. Sound Level/Activity: The sound level is consistently at a medium level, while the activity is frequently changing.
  6. Description: busy and bustling
  7. Essential: talking and music

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Suffolk Hall kitchen (4/24/26, 10:07 PM)

Furthest: The elevator opening, someone talking on their phone in the hallway

Medium: The TV on in the lounge

Closest: The water filter humming, water falling into a metal water bottle, ice clinking in a metal water bottle

Sound level: Low

Description: Sleepy

Essential sounds: Humming, water, TV

Journal Entry 4/24/26
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Jane St Backyard (4/23/26, 12:20am)

Farthest – Cars on Hempstead Turnpike, the sound of roadwork machinery, an ambulance siren.

Medium – Crickets chirping, the leaves in the trees rustling.

Closest – The fire crackling, friends chatting quietly, a guitar being played.

Sound Level – Low

Description – Peaceful

Essential Sounds – The guitar, the fire crackling, my friend’s voices.

Journal 7
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04/23/26

Captain’s Field, 6 pm

Farthest: Cars driving past, audience shouting, cheering

Medium: flag football players running, ref yelling, whistles

Close: team members cheering, speaker playing music

Sound Level: Loud

Description: Excited anticipation

Essential sounds: Cheering, audience shouting, players running, whistles, speakers playing music, team members cheering

Journal Entry #7
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4/24/26–1:02pm—Doughnut Plant, Brooklyn

Farthest: cars honking, cars driving past

Medium: Coffee machines, coins clinking, music over speakers, air conditioning running

Close: wrapper crinkling, conversation, footsteps

Sound Level: medium

Description: Pleasantly busy

Essential sounds: coffee machine, coins clinking, conversation

 

Journal Entry #7
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1. 9/23/26, 9pm, NFL Draft party

2. Air conditioning, cars outside, oven in kitchen turning on

3. Front door opening, bottles being opening, bags of chips rustling, couch springs creaking

4. TV playing ESPN, people near me hooting and hollering, music from bluetooth speaker

5. Sound level is high, lots of different things happening among the bunch of people in the room

6. Overwhelming

7. Essential sounds are the TV, people hooting and hollering at it, and the bottles.

Journal Entry #6
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1- 4/23/26, 2:34 pm, Bench by Stadium Road Entrance of Hofstra Campus

2- Cars speeding by, A car being locked(beep!), Siren

3- Woman talking on the phone, Engine running, Tires screeching on concrete, Birds Chirping

4- Wind blowing, Sniffling, Water bubbling in water bottle

5- General sound level is medium, and the amount of sound activity is constant

6- Chaotic

7- Cars speeding by, Wind blowing, a car being locked(beep!)

Journal Entry #6
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  1. 4/21/26, 6:00pm, Central Park
  2. Farthest: Cars driving past, people playing volleyball, cars honking
  3. Medium: People talking indistinctly, wind blowing, birds chirping, person singing in the park
  4. Closest: Dogs barking, people running, bikes going by, friends talking next to me, people walking nearby
  5. Sound level: very loud
  6. Description: park
  7. 5 Essential: Dogs barking, cars honking, birds chirping, wind going by, people walking

Journal Entry #5
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  1. 4/11/2026, 3:30 pm, Quad outside Lowe.
  2. Farthest: a bird squawking or tweeting, cars going by on the turnpike, planes flying overhead, sirens.
  3. Medium: AC units turning on, the radio at Bits, the leaves.
  4. Closest: People walking and talking, the wind, bugs buzzing.
  5. Sound Level/Activity: It’s peaceful. All of the sounds are at a low level. 
  6. Description: Calm. 
  7. Essential: The wind blowing the leaves, cars going by, birds chirping.