Saturday, February 6th, 2021 at 7:45 pm

Location: The inside of a cabin on a movie set.

Farthest Sounds: The ruffling of clothing and supplies as the characters prepare to flee, the heavy breathing of the male character.

Medium Sounds: The swinging of the hinge of another door further away. The voice of the male character struggling to push out his words.

Closest Sounds: The slamming of the door to the far right, the voice of the female character which is notably louder than that of the male, feet stomping. The commands of the director yelling action and cut at the beginning and end of the scene.

Sound Level: Oscillates between medium and high. 

One word description: hectic

Important Sounds: The commands of the director yelling action and cut, as they signal the commencement and silencing of sound, the slamming of the door on the far right signaling the resulting franticness, the heavy breathing of the male character struggling to compose himself in the face of danger.

Friday, February 12th, 2021 at 2:30 pm

Location: At a table in Bits and Bytes by the large window.

Farthest Sounds: The electronic sound of a voice coming from a phone or a computer, followed by loud joyous laughter, clearly an important person in their life. Although not in person, they wouldn’t have it any other way.

Medium Sounds: Other students eating and conversing amongst themselves, enjoying the moment that they are spending together. Laughing and spreading shared memories, truly the positive signs from a beautiful friendship.

Closest Sounds: A plastic bottle of cherry coke opening and garlic covered pizza being eaten, followed by smacking lips. Breathing and enjoyment of the meal before them, a brief pause in time for the calm amongst them

Sound Description / Level: Loud, but not deafening, above average but in separate private bubbles of sound.

Important Sounds: The heater behind gives a constant vibrating hum, while in front of me I can hear the sizzle of slabs of meat hitting the grill, which can easily make an empty stomach growl on it’s own. The sizzling is accompanied by the whir of a fan attempting to tame the heat from this blazing beast. The thrusting noise of a blender destroying it’s contents and making a delicious blend.

Thursday, February 11th, 2021 at 11:42pm

Location: At my desk in my dorm bedroom

Farthest Sounds: wind rustling trees and the not very nice fence outside my window, the heater in the other room being ungodly, occasional planes, other residents of the house moving furniture and flushing the toilets

Medium Sounds: My heater blowing air and making occasional but pretty loud cranking noises

Closest Sounds: My desk fan, “Familiarity” by Punch Brothers playing ever so softly, my clock ticking — I hear it just because I know it’s there, the sound is pretty much covered by the heat in my room which can be unforgivably loud compared to the quieter sounds and white noise

Sound Description / Level: mostly white noise — quiet

Important Sounds: the heater cracking, the desk fan running, the furniture moving flushing of toilets by the other house residents

Location: My bedroom

Far sounds: Cars passing on the street, plane overhead, music from cars passing

Medium sounds: My housemates downstairs, someone in the kitchen, the person I share a wall with

Close sounds: My tv, my computer, my fridge, my chair 

General Noise level: Quiet

Description: Relaxing

Top 3 Sounds: tv, fridge, and cars