DATE-TIME-LOCATION: 4/28/11; 6:30PM; Student Center Cafe

FARTHEST SOUNDS: machine beeping, people talking, metal clanking

MEDIUM SOUNDS: people talking, fryer bubbling

NEAR SOUNDS: sauce sizzling, people talking, machine beeping

SOUND LEVEL: loud

SOUND ENVIRONMENT: busy

ESSENTIAL SOUNDS: people talking, metal clanking, sauce sizzling

Location: On a train, somewhere between Bridgeport and New York (The train was from Boston to New York, but the distinct moment was sometime after I had passed Bridgeport). Wasn’t exactly keeping track of time that day. 24th of April.

Far Sounds: Sound of wheels on tracks.

Middle Sounds: People in seats behind me and across from me talking.

Near Sounds: The music from the headphones of the man seated next to me. It is loud enough that I can distinguish words. He frequently begins a song, plays it for about 20-40 seconds, then skips to the next one, creating an unflattering break in the unflattering rap music.

General Level: Quiet

One-Word Description: Intruded

3 Sounds: Rap music. The skipped-track break. The wheels on the tracks.

Date/Location/Time: 4/21/11, Chatham Bay, Chatham, MA, 2:00PM

Far Sounds: waves crashing, cars driving by, wind blowing

Medium Close Sounds: seagulls, more waves crashing, people playing football

Very Close Sounds: beer cans opening, John and Mike talking, bag of chips being opened

Sound Level: Relatively quiet, all the sounds were not muddled but subdued.

One Word Description: Carefree

Sounds to Recreate Environment: bag of chips, seagulls, waves from the ocean.

1- Wednesday, April 13th at 10:02, Lowe 201

2- The wind is causing the windows to brace against the building.

3- People walking by outside the room.

4- People chatting inside the room.

5- Varied sound level — everyone in the room is wide awake, but all of the other sounds seem very sleepy.
6- Waking
7- The wind, people walking by, people chatting

13 April 2011, 9:30 pm, Outside the Signiture Theatre in NYC

The sounds furthest away from me are cars honking and tires scraping wet pavement as they drive in the distance.

The sounds medium distance from me are the sounds of splashing and wet scratching of tires of cars passing by and the low male and female voices of audience members waiting around during intermission.

The sounds closest to me are the scratch and click of the man lighting a cigarette next to me, the air pressured release of the door opening and vaccumed thud of the door shutting behind me, and louder male and female voices of audience members.

The general sound level is low with all sounds either distanced or muffled but enough sound to fill the environment. The amount of sound activity could be described as busy but quaint.

The sound environment is muffled.

The three essential sounds to this sound environment are: the wet scratching and splashes of cars passing by on wet pavement, male and female audience members speaking low tones around me, and cars honking in the distance.