Location- Gallon Wing, 1:50pm, March 31, 2011
Farthest Sounds- singing and piano in the next room, cars on the Turnpike, car horn, door slam
Medium Sounds- McFeely talking, papers shuffling, footsteps, classroom voices
Closest Sounds- Pencils witing, books shutting, zipper
Sound level- Medium, general end of class hubbub
One word description- Excited
Necessary Sounds- Cars on turnpike, class room voices, McFeely talking
1- 3/31/11 1:30 pm, Gallon Wing
2- Cars on Hempstead turnpike, someone yelling outside, ambulance going by
3- Music coming from another classroom.
4- Professor speaking, kid next to me snoring, my food tapping
5- Surprisingly loud considering I was in a classroom.
6- Busy
7- Ambulance going by, professor talking, snoring.
1. 03/30/11, 8:30 AM, my bedroom
2. I can hear water running in the bathroom. I hear my roommate brushing her teeth and her alarm is still playing in the other bedroom (the song “Bills, Bills, Bills”).
3. I hear my door creak as it opens. I hear banging from the walls, which I think is just pipes but I’m not actually sure. I hear soft music playing from my computer.
4. I hear my cell phone alarm beeping on my pillow (which I turn off quickly). I hear my own breathing and a groan because I’m tired and have a headache and don’t want to wake up.
5. The sound level is very loud when my alarm is going off next to me. As soon as I turn it off, though, there is a sharp change and the sound level is very low.
6. Exasperating
7. Alarm, water running, music playing
1- 3/29/11 – 11:00pm- Design Room in Emily Lowe.
2- There are sounds of cars passing by outside, there are people talking outside in the hallway, there is a strange knocking sound coming from an unidentified source.
3- There are people talking in the room, there is music playing, there is the noise of a pencil sharpener, there is paper shuffling and noises of pencils and erasers being dropped on the desk, the squeak and noise of the swiveling chairs.
4- The typing of a computer, the vibration from a text, sniffling, coughing, the movement of a chair, humming.
5- The general sound level is minimal and the sound activity is also very little.
6- This sound environment is “empty”
7- The music in the background, outside sounds including the people talking in the hallway and the cars outside and the knocking noise from an unidentified source.
Legal Seafood, 19 March 2011, 5:00 pm
The sounds furthest from me are the chatter of distant male and female voices, clanking of silverwear, footsteps of many bustling waiters and waitresses and the doors to the kitchen opening and entrance occasionally opening and closing.
The sounds medium distance to me are the voices of children, adult male and female voices, the thumping of items being placed on tables.
The sounds closest to me are the voices of my parents and my brother, wet but almost silent sounds of chewing, my own chewing, silverware occasionaly scraping across plates, thumping of drinks being placed back on the table, ice cubes knocking around in my drink, the fizz of carbanation from my sparkling water.
The general sound level is moderate and the amount of sound activity could be described as full and in perpetual motion with so many various sounds going in and out of ear shot quickly and consistantly.
The sound enviroment could be described as “lively.”
Three sounds necessary for this enviroment are male and female voices, the wet alomst silent sound of chewing, and the scratching of silverware cutting through food and onto plates.
Date: March 25, 2011
Date of Observation: March 19, 2011
Location: Green Room, Adams Playhouse
Time: 7:00 PM
Far away sounds: Dressing room doors opening and closing, footsteps going up and down the stairwells.
Moderately close sounds: The sounds of the stage and Avery talking coming through the intercom, people whispering to one another within the warm up circle.
Very close sounds: Everyone sighing on sound, laughter, Keith instructing the warm up.
One word description: Focused.
Crucial sounds to recreate this atmosphere: Sighing on sound, intercom noises, Keith instructing.
DATE-TIME-LOCATION: 3/24/11; 7:00PM; bench outside of Hammer Computer Lab
FARTHEST SOUNDS: Axinn Library doors opening
MEDIUM SOUNDS: hum of vending machine, footsteps
NEAR SOUNDS: automatic door swinging open, automatic door sliding open
SOUND LEVEL: moderate
SOUND ENVIRONMENT: walkway
ESSENTIAL SOUNDS: automatic door swinging open, automatic door sliding open, footsteps
1- 3/23/2011 in the NAB Blackbox, around 9 PM
2- The wind, the sleet and hail hitting the roof. Thunder.
3- The air conditioning system and the wind pushing the glass of the NAB against the building.
4- People chatting, someone typing on the cell phone. My computer fan.
5- The general sound level is low, but the occasional thunder is very loud for indoors.
6- Stormy
7- The rain, the thunder, and people chatting.
1- 11:30 PM 3/24/2011 Bridget and Hauzia’s Livingroom
2- Traffic outside
3- Hum of the fridges in the kitchen, The heater, mechanical noises
4- My breathing, Bridget and Hauzia’s conversation, Mechanical noises (computer fans, etc.), my breathing
5- Quiet, but punctuated by conversation
6- Relaxed
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
1) 3/24/11-8:00 p.m.-Standing in the middle of the unispan.
2) The sounds furthest away from me included cars driving under the unispan and a distant honk from a car horn.
3) The sounds in medium range from me included a bag on wheels rolling across the cement, talking, feet scraping the cement, coats rustling, plastic bag rustling, shoe heels clicking, hum of motorized wheelchair, heavy breathing from a jogging boy, coughing, ringing of a cell phone, and faint music coming from headphones.
4) My feet impatiently taping the floor and my mechanical pencil squeaking across paper would be considered sounds closest to me.
5) The sound level was medium, but there was a lot of noise activity because people kept passing by me as I stood in one place on the unispan. I considered the noises of passersby to be medium range from me because they were far away but then came close as they passed by me.
6) Hollow
7) The sound of the feet shuffling and scraping, talking, and the rush of the cars as they drive underneath the unispan.