Sound Observation #7

1) Friday March 9th, 2012 – 12:30p.m. – Bits & Bytes

2) Furthest away were dozens of high schoolers ordering food, clanking plastic trays, and confused Hofstra students chatting.

3)  At Medium range there was even more chatting and scanners reading barcodes, doors opening and closing.

4) Closest to me were a couple of my friends eating , opening soda bottles and talking about how easy it would be to steal food at this precise moment.

5) The sound level is obnoxiously loud.

6) Disarray.

7) Trays and food being moved around, dozens of conversations, each trying to over empower the last, and scanners beeping over and over again.

 

Journal Entry #7

1- 2012-03-16 1:45 PM
Inside the Liberty study room

2- Footsteps in the boys hall around the corner

3- Hum of vending machine, people were playing foosball very loudly but have now stopped.  TV in the lounge is on but not decipherable from this room.
4- Opera coming from the girl next to me’s headphones, soda next to me bubbling.
5- This sound environnent is strange because it’s full of sounds that are normally louder but aren’t right now, leaving myself feeling distant.  Chelsea (the girl in the room) is asleep, her headphones audible but not blaring loud.  The other sounds are coming from behind a closed door, so they are also barely there.
6- muffled.
7- Opera on the headphones, indecipherable TV, rattle of vending machines.

Journal Entry #7

1. 3/14/12, 11:00AM, Quad in front of Lowe.

2. Students sitting outside of Bits and Bytes enjoying the sun, a girl squealing, a bike passing.

3. Babies going by in a wagon, the sound of the wagon wheels, students conversing on the stoop of Lowe.

4. The conversation of the people I am sitting with, my pencil scratching my paper, the clicking of my pencil for new lead, music playing from someone’s phone.

5. There is much sound activity, but the sound level is being dissipated into the open.

6. Bright.

7. The students buzzing in front of Bits and Bytes, The babies and the wagons, and the music playing.

Journal Entry #7

1. 3/14/12   11:15am   Common hour, bench near Roosevelt Hall

2. The sounds farthest away from me are people sitting at the tables talking and laughing.

3. The sounds at a medium distance are birds chirping in a tree and a door to the building in front of me being opened and shut.

4. The sounds closest to me are people walking on the sidewalk/ground, you can hear their shoes shuffling. I also hear my phone receive an email and it makes a little ringing noise.

5. The general sound level is somewhat moderate, and the level remains fairly constant.

6. I would describe the sound environment as “lively”.

7. Three sounds essential to the sound environment are the birds chirping, people talking behind me, and the sounds of people walking.  They are common sounds for common hour, when people are going to meetings or relaxing before class in the nice weather.

Journal Entry #7

1.  March 15th at 11:20 in studio south of WRHU (I was doing my music slot at Hofstra’s radio station.

2. The sounds farthest from me are people talking and laughing outside the studio.

3. The sound at medium range to me is the studio door shutting and someone is writing on the dry erase board outside the studio door. The marker was very squeaky.

4.  The sounds closest to me are my tracker asking me a question and the song playing in the background which was “The Space Between” by the Dave Matthews Band. You can also hear clicking on the computer in the background as I am moving the next song into the selector program on the computer.

5.  It is pretty calm in the studio and quite relaxing.  We are playing what I consider to be good music and my tracker and I are having a good time.

6.  mellow

7.  The sounds that are essential to the environment are obviously the music playing in the background since it is a radio station, my tracker asking me a question about what is going on, and the clicking on the computer.

Journal Entry #7

Date: March 15, 2012

Time: 7:45pm

Location: Target

Farthest sounds: Footsteps, hangers clanking, squeeky cart wheels

Medium Sounds: People talking, kids screaming, the cash registers beeping

Closest Sounds: Avery talking, my cellphone ringing, my breating

 

General Sounds: hushed roar

Environment: laid back

3 sounds: Avery talking, kids screaming, the cash register beeping

Journal Entry #6

1- 3/15/12 – 9:29 PM – 8th floor of Axinn Library
2- The elevator, cars outside
3- People typing, coughing, occasionally whispering, papers rustling, bags unzipping
4- The air vent, my typing, my watch ticking
5- Very low
6- Studious
7- My typing, the air vent, papers rustling

Sound Observation #7

– 3/15/12 – 6:30 pm – Leiden House

– Sit, close eyes and allow the sounds around you to envelope you, listen for all of the sound in your environment.

2- a plane is flying in the distance with engines roaring. it gets farther and farther away. the wind is also blowing
3- some boys in the house are being loud and obnoxious as per usual
4- my roommate is snoring and clicking her teeth. my suite mate is in the other room coughing.
5- it is fairly calm and relaxing before what will be a hectic time for some people
6- calm
7- the wind blowing gently, the plane’s engine roaring in the distance, the boys downstairs yelling

Journal entry #7

1- 3/15, 2:54, Art History class

2-The hum of the vents, people walking by in the hallway
3-The girl presenting her project, the clicking of people typing. Someone clicking their pen, people shifting in their chairs, someone coughing
4- the scraping of my bracelets against my laptop, James and Eliza typing on their computers
5-busy sounding. The sounds of typing come at different intervals, which feels as though the someone is continuously typing
6- Learning
7- Typing, the hum of the vent, the girl talking

Journal Entry #5

1. Target, 3/7/12, 7:36pm.

2. Carts moving, beeping from the checkout, talking.

3. More carts, children playing, their mother calling them, heavy boxes being dropped on the ground.

4. A person going through the make-up next to me, foot steps behind me, Taylor talking.

5. The sound level and activity is generally moderate.

6. Bustling.

7. Shopping Carts, talking, checkout.