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Journal Entry 6
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1- Date/Time/Location.
3.6.13/midday/Au Bon Pain

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
The thumping of speakers playing a poppy, overplayed tune, people chattering

3- Identify and list the sounds at medium range from you.
Someone dropping silverware, people speaking, someone laughing loudly

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
A chair scraping against the floor as someone pushes away from the table, a girl speaking loudly, braggingly about her grades in a glass, a boy talking to a girl about someone.

5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
Highly active–loud.

6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
Clamorous.

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
The pop tune, laughter, people speaking

 

Journal Entry 6
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1- Spiegel Theater, 11:26 pm Wednesday March 6 at Tim Burton-themed Cabaret

2- Farthest away: Doors opening and closing (from outside to the atrium, atrium to the house, and house to backstage)

3- Medium range: People singing and talking, David Murray playing electric guitar, footsteps as people travel up and down the voms and on the stage.

4- Sounds closest: Computer keyboard keys, Athena and Kaitlin talking with Rachel Levi interjecting now and again.

5- General sound level and amount of sound activity: For a Cabaret, the noise level was relatively under control. It was at about the level of a nice restaurant, with the lull of conversation going on, the few bits of conversation you could pick out and distinguish from the rest of the buzz, and people moving around to and fro.

6-One word description to the “sound environment”: Energized

7- 3 sounds essential to the sound environment. Electric guitar, thudding footsteps, drama students chatting with each other.

Journal Entry #6
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1) 3/7/2013, 3:50PM, Outside between Alliance Hall and Bill of Rights Hall.

2) A beeping like an alarm coming from the direction of Alliance Hall, Car starting, slight ambient chatter, doors closing quickly from Bill of Rights Hall

3) Footsteps, feet/shoes shuffling against the wet ground, more ambient chatter, doors closing from Alliance Hall

4) The wind!!! (the wind blowing and hitting my face as I sit there), my own breathing through my nose, my own sniffling as I remain out in the cold (bad choice on my part), some of my own shuffling as I shift around on the bench

5) The general sound level is medium, but the sound activity is actually rather low

6) Zephyr

7) The wind, the beeping of the alarm, my own sniffling

Journal Entry 6
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1. Thursday Evening Library
2. The elevator dinging, doors opening, quiet voices and footsteps
3. Back pack unzipping and zipping. whispering
4. Pages turning in a book, friend clearing his throat, chair scooting back
5. Low volume but lots of activity
6. Cautious
7. Footsteps, quiet voices, computer clacking

Journal Entry # 6
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1- 3/7/2013-2:18pm-Spiegel Theater

Styles II Class: Stefanie is performing her monologue, Royston has her watch a video on Youtube as she performs.

2- Farthest away: The “rickety-rack” of the vent, Royston’s voice with suggestions.

3- Medium range: Stefanie’s voice as she performs, the video she is listening to on her phone.

4- Sounds closest: The sound of someone chewing gum next to me.

5- General sound level and amount of sound activity: Sound activity and levels are very low, all people speaking are speaking with indoor voices and the gum chewing, vent, and video are sounds that give the room a strange intrusive feeling.

6-One word description to the “sound environment”: Creepy.

7- 3 sounds essential to the sound environment. Gum chewing, vent, background video noises on the phone.

Journal Entry #6
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1. March 7th – 5:42 PM – studio

2. The slamming of a door down the hallway

3. The heater blowing air out quietly

4. The whir of my laptop fan, my breathing

5. There’s a very low sound level, you can hear every little sound. The general activity is low as well, there’s not a lot of different things making sound in the room. Actually, this is very strange for the studio. Eerily quiet.

6. Quiet!

7. The heater, my breathing, my laptop fan

Journal Entry 5
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1. 3/6 Friends suite in the Netherlands, early afternoon
2. The heater, someone jingling their keys and opening a door in the hall, the faint sound of the wind
3. The TV (the family feud theme song), the front door opening, voices, a cough
4. Me sniffling, computer clicking
5. Medium to loud, volume fluctuates very fast
6. Lively
7. Voices, TV and me sniffling

 

Journal #6
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1)      12:42 p.m 0019 Breslin, Waiting for Peter Sander

2)       footsteps, radiator, quiet music from someone’s Ipod

3)       clicking of computer keys, the door slamming as it shuts

4)       a boy reciting the plot of “Midsummer Night’s Dream, girl asking questions on same subject

5)      medium to slightly loud

6)      panicked

7)       the boy talking, the girl talking, the slamming of the door

Journal Entry #6
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1) 3/7/13, 12:43pm, Cabaret in the Spiegel Theater

2) Max Baudisch hitting a rehearsal cube, Christian Titus’s footsteps and manic yelling

3) Cackles and hyperventilating from the audience, chairs squeaking, snaps, general hubbub of many people all living/breathing in a small room (the sound of small movements and breaths).

4) My own laugh, Tanner’s loud laugh, Geena’s giggling.

5) The sound level is medium high: loud, but not overwhelming. The amount of sound activity is very high.

6) Ridiculous

7) Max, Christian, and Tanner’s overpowering laugh.

Journal 6
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1- 3/4/13, 2:30 PM, Alliance Hall Lobby

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you: The elevator ding as it arrives on the floor, wind blowing outside the windows, cars driving by in the distance

3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you: The clacking of the turnstile as people are swiping in to the building, someone asking the RSR to swipe them in, music bleeding through the person sitting on the other side of the room’s headphones
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you: humming of the water fountain, the soft splashing as I fill my water bottle
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity: It’s a moderate amount of sound, none of the sounds are terribly overpowering or invasive
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”: humdrum
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment: The elevator ding, the turnstile, and the hum of the water fountain