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Journal Entry #3
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Bill of Rights Laundry Room – 3/10/23 – 9:40am

Far sounds: Cars passing outside

Medium Sounds: metal clacking inside washers/dryers

Close sounds: dryer hum, machine creaking, water filling washer, buzzer when laundry finishes

Sounds level: consistently noisy but not too loud

One Word: busy

Most Important: dryer hum, metal clanking, water filling washer

Journal Entry 3
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Date: March 8

Time: 6:00 pm

Location: Bits & Bytes

Far Sounds: indistinguishable conversations in the back room, electricity humming, food wrappers rustling.

Medium Sounds: garbled voice speaking over the phone, people talking, chairs scraping across the floor, hands clapping occasionally. 

Close Sounds: fan whirring overhead, keyboard clicks, table wobbling, fabric rubbing.

Sound Description/Level: quite consistent, there is a steady drone of voices engaged in different conversations, but they all blur into one another. The other sounds are mere accents dropped in occasionally.

One Word: bustling

Most Important Sounds: people talking, chairs scraping, voice on the phone

Journal Entry 3
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  1. 03/08/2023 – 1:55 PM – Outside of the Graduate Residence Hall
    Far away: The Hofstra Shuttle moving around, footsteps
    Medium: Very windy, some cars driving, someone locking their car with the alarm
    Closest: Birds, the gardeners trimming the grass and collecting shavings in garbage bags
    The sound level is medium.
    Descriptor: Tranquil
    The essential sounds are: the soft footsteps, the wind, and the gardeners.

Sound Journal #3
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March 6th, 4:26PM, Shapiro Family Hall lobby.

Furthest: Heating system humming, very distant talking, echoes from the piano. 

Medium: Footsteps walking towards outside, piano playing melodically.  

Closest: Students talking, the double glass doors closing, fabric from my clothing moving. 

Sound level varies extremely as the people who pass me talk loudly and their footsteps ring, contrasting with the light piano tunes and the echoing. The amount of sound activity is spirited as there is a strong contrast between low tones and high.

One Word Description: Spirited

Essential Sounds: 

  1. Piano playing melodically 
  2. Students talking 
  3. Footsteps

Journal Entry #2
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  1. 2/26/23 at Dutch Treats at 10:25
  2. Farthest Away: Cars driving, plane flying
  3. Medium Range: People chatting outside Hofusa, someone restocking the ice cream, bottles moving in the fridges
  4. Closest: People talking, bags rustling as people move around, loud footsteps and some running, some of the employees laughing and joking around together
  5. Sound Level: Not quiet, but not overwhelmingly loud
  6. Sound Activity: Busy and hurried, but also casual
  7. One Word: Welcoming
  8. Essential Sounds: Bags rustling, employees laughing and joking, ice cream restocking

Journal Entry 2
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  1. 02/26/2023 – 8:47 PM – my bedroom
  2. Far away: Cars on the highway, people talking outside
  3. Medium: People talking downstairs, a toilet flushing, a sink turning on
  4. Closest: Someone watching tiktoks, someone walking past my door
  5. Sound level: relatively low, not much going on
  6. One word: Tired
  7. The essential sounds are: TikToks, people passing by in the hall, cars in the distance

Sound Journal 2
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Date: 2/24, 5:58pm

Location: Dutch Treats

Far sounds: water running in the kitchen in the back

Medium sounds: rustling of a bag, door opening and closing, beep of the scanner at the register, people walking around shopping

Close sounds: the TV playing loudly (ads, then Star Wars music), the cashiers having a conversation, a staff member answering a phone call, the refrigerated items shelf buzzing, the crinkle of the Uncrustable I’m about to buy

Sound description/level: it’s not a busy time for Dutch but there are a handful of other people so it’s a fairly consistent volume in here. Not loud; you can hear the TV from anywhere inside but it’s not overwhelming, and a few people are talking but when they move away I can’t hear them as clearly

One word: supermarket

Most important sounds: the TV, the cashiers’ conversation, the fridges buzzing

Journal 2
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  1. 02/24/2023 – 5:16 PM – Outside of Vander Poel Hall
  2. Far away: A car honked, some kind of radio music playing
  3. Medium: Cars driving by, a car driving very fast, leaves on trees blowing in the wind
  4. Closest: People having conversations passing by, a cat meow, some birds tweeting
  5. The sound level is quite low when it is closer to me, but things like the car driving are loud. 
  6. Descriptor: Busy
  7. The essential sounds are: the car honking, the sounds of cars driving by, leaves blowing in the wind, and the birds tweeting.

Journal Entry #2
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  1. Location: Living Room of my house, 4:14 pm 2/24/23
  2. Sounds furthest away: Planes flying overhead, Cars driving down the turnpike behind me, wind in the distance, cars revving, horns honking
  3. Sounds at Medium range: Cars driving past my house and down the street, The sound of my storm door banging against the porch railing due to wind, my roommate typing down the hall, sound of garbage being thrown in the dumpster of Popeyes, woman talking on the phone on the sidewalk.
  4. Sounds closest to me: Me typing on the computer, the sound of me sipping my tea, phone buzz notification, me breathing, my knees popping, the chair shifting under my weight.
  5. Around me in the house, the sound is very quiet. There is, however, a lot of loud sounds in the distance, mainly due to the cars and busy roads. By the time those sounds get to my ear, they are dampened and muffled.
  6. “Secluded”
  7. Cars going by on the turnpike, me breathing, me sipping tea