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Journal Entry #4
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1) Hofstra USA, 2/21/13, 10:00PM

2) People talking, doors opening and closing, music from radio or jukebox-type thing

3) Arcade game noises (*bloops*, *bleeps*, music from “Dance Dance Revolution”), more people talking, people taking orders at cash register

4) Buzzing from vibrating phone, buzzing from vibrating pager, friends complaining about how crowded it was. Smoothie machine running next to me. My own sniffling.

5) The general sound level is moderate, but there is a high level of sound activity

6) “Anxious”

7) Arcade game noises, orders being taken at cash register, smoothie machine running

Journal Entry 4
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1- 2/19/13 Emily Lowe 106 7:30 P.M.

2- Talking in the Drama Lounge and the hall, Doors opening and closing.

3- Piano, Singers, Talking of the instructor.

4- Typing on a laptop keyboard, Talking.

5- In the room there was the loud piano and singers. The combination of those sounds filled the room, but I was still able to hear sounds coming from outside the room.

6- Process

7- Piano, Men’s Voices, Women’s Voices. The singers and the piano make up the majority of this sounde environment.

Journal Entry 4
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1- Date/Time/Location.
2.21.13/11:15am/Emily Lowe Hall (Drama Lounge)

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
I can hear people in distant rooms speaking, a door closing.  There are footsteps in the hallway.

3- Identify and list the sounds at medium range from you.
People outside the door reading a scene, laughing.  Someone coughing.

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
The sound of Max asleep on the couch, deep breaths with the occasional snore.  The sound of someone’s iPod headphones buzzing and the clacking of their fingers against a laptop keyboard.

5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
Low activity, all sounds seem to be muffled except the snoring.

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

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
The indistinct mumbling in the hall, The people reading a scene, and Max’s snores

 

Journal Entry 4
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1. February 21, 6:15 PM, Back room of Bits and Bytes

2. Hum from vents, voices from main area of Bytes

3. Voices of people at other end of table, pages turning

4. Voices of people sitting next to me, water bottle being capped, myself chewing

5. Medium. Not many things happening, but the voices are very excited, especially for such a small room.

6. Passionate

7. Vent hum, voices, me chewing

Journal Entry #4
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1. Thursday, February 21, 2:22 PM, Breslin 112

2. The projector humming, someone’s chair squeeking, someone’s phone vibrating

3. More chairs squeeking, Martha talking about Artstor and technology

4. Rachel eating pretzels, Matt typing

5. The sound level is fairly quiet (as class is just about to start), but there’s lots of different elements incorporated making the activity pretty high.

6. Distracting

7. Squeeky chairs, noms, and Martha

Journal Entry #4
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1) 2/20/13, 6:08pm, Studio

 

2) Indistinguishable movement from the conference room next door and the hall. Something that sounds like a cat meowing outside. Cars pulling away for the night

 

3) Phil’s footsteps and shuffling of papers, Phil clipping a carbineer, the air blowing out of the vent, Noah rustling canary paper and the scratch of his pencil, the clock ticking extremely quietly

 

4) My typing and breathing. My jacket rubbing against the edge of the desk as I type.

 

5) The sound level is low, but there is a fair amount of sound activity.

 

6) Focused

 

6) Pencil Scratching, rustling of papers, clock ticking

Journal Entry # 4
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1- 02/17/2013-9:52 AM- On the Bolt Bus from NYC to Boston.

2- Sounds farthest away: Whizzing of cars passing by outside.

3- Sounds at a medium range: Light rattling of the bus, sounds like a baby’s toy. Very light whisper of women’s voices, one woman’s pronunciation of s’s is very predominant.

4- Sounds closest: Constant low hum of the bus, sounds like a propeller at times beating at a 2/4 rhythm. Soft rustling when my head moves to get comfortable in the seat. It is so calm I can hear myself inhale and exhale.

5- General sound level and amount of sound activity: Sound level is very low and sound activity is calm and tranquil. There are maybe about five people on the bus and it is an easy early morning.

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

7- 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.: Constant low hum of the bus, light whisper of women’s voices, inhalations and exhalations.

Journal #4
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1- 2/17/13 – 1:09 AM – On bench in front of Hofstra Hall
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you. – Furthest away from me I can hear the occasional and very faint tone of a car passing by on the Turnpike. Every noise is quick and is a fast swoosh past the University due to the Doppler effect of where I was sitting in relation to the cars that were zooming past. A little bit closer but still pretty far from me on the other side of me I can hear the noises of the few maintenance guys working on the building behind me. They are generating a series of clicking and clanging noises as they move equipment from their car to the building
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you. – A little closer than these noises I can hear the flags on the flag pole whipping in the wind and cracking like a whip with every large gust of wind. Whenever the wind dies down the tension on the cable was released and the clip on the flag would briefly clang into the pole just before another large gust came and pulled the flag away again. To the left of me I can hear the distinct noise of the two posters hung on the light posts clinging onto the pole for dear life. The paper was whipping so hard I thought it could rip off at any moment. 
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant). – Closest to me I can hear a few dry leaves scootch across the concrete and create a very distinct noise i associate with late fall. Just behind me I can hear needles of the evergreen trees cling create friction with the wind sailing around them. Against my ears I can hear the whistle as the wind goes through the fibers of my hat- effectively muting almost every noise I have listed above. 
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity. – All around me the noises are very intense and there is a plethora of noises around me mostly being influenced by the wind that is whipping through the air. The interesting thing is that the noise of the wind through my hat is that it lessens the intensity of every noise around me. 
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”. –  Exposed
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try and figure out what sounds make up this environment and which of those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment to stay intact. – Wind in my ears, Flag pole, leaves scootching

Journal 3
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1:  Friday, February 15, 2013, 8:55 pm, Hofstra Student Center

 

2:  Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.

Students talking and eating in the large dining section.

 

3:  Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.

The student center television, some other students in the front part of the dining section eating.

 

4: Identify and list the sounds closest to you (– you can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).

Students walking by on their way to their first class, “Kill Everybody” by Skrillex on my iPod.

 

5: Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.

For such a busy hub on campus, the sound is rather muted and subtle.

 

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

“Subdued”

 

7: Select and list 3 sounds that are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try and figure out what sounds make up this environment and which of those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment to stay intact.

Footsteps of students, the tv, the cashiers at their posts ringing students up.

Sound Journal #3
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1:  Thursday, February 14, 2013, 6:14 pm, Hofstra Student Center

 

2:  Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.

The sound of over a hundred voices bounces around the high-ceilinged, hard-surfaced space, making any sound beyond the room in which I sit completely inaudible over the din.  At its farthest, the sound of voices constitutes more a continuous, singular noise than a collective of individual voices – a humming, steady roar.

 

3:  Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.

At my table, several people eat their food in solitude, sitting rather close to me on all sides because of the way the seats are configured around the table.  The sound of plastic forks and knives scratching against the cardboard of their to-go boxes makes a cacophony of irksome scratching noises.  One girl sits close enough to me that I can hear the wet, tearing sound that her soda makes when she sucks it violently through her gnawed, spit-covered straw, as well as the smacking of her lips as she eats her pasta.    Without such proximity, I would not be able to hear anything from my fellow diners.  After all, I can hear very few individual noises from the next table over, due to the general noise level in the dining area.

 

4: Identify and list the sounds closest to you (– you can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).

On my laptop, I am live-streaming the audio from a show in Boston’s Café 939, via Birncore.com.  I can hear the noises in this venue in Boston: I can hear glasses clinking, peals of giddy laughter, and the three male musicians tuning their guitars and making Valentine’s-related jokes to their largely female and thusly doting audience.   With no visual knowledge of the inside of the space, it’s a strange experience to be able to hear so vividly so finite moment and so intimate an environment, as it exists miles away from and yet simultaneous to all the hubbub in the student center.  Such an overlap is the closest thing one can get to a concrete experience of the multiverse.

 

5: Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.

Many individual sounds can be heard, but the general racket begins to sound very monotonous the more I sit in it.  Again, the overall noises level is quite high.

 

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

“Rambunctious”

 

7: Select and list 3 sounds that are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try and figure out what sounds make up this environment and which of those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment to stay intact.

The audio livestream is interesting, but not necessarily integral to the essence of the space at large.  Much more important is the incessant, buzzy sound of dozens of conversations at once, juxtaposed with the individual sounds of people scraping up their food, as well as the slurping sounds of the girl eating nearest to me.