Category Archives: Journal Entry

Journal 4 Eve
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March 28th 2022

Eve Journal 4 

DATE: 03/28/2022

TIME: 4:45 pm 

LOCATION of the sound environment: Broadway Dance Center 

  • Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.

The ambulance

Cars beeping

Cars wheels sliding on the streets

Cars’ engines

Car accident (it actually happened I was looking at the window and a car crashed with a taxi).

  • Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you. 

Other classes noises: hip hop, modern, ballet songs.

Professors in the different classes yelling, giving corrections

Doors shutting

Running, walk steps.

  • Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).

People chatting

Dance stepping on the floor

People singing

Professor talking

Music coming from the classroom’s sound system

  • Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.

The level and activity of sound was super high

  • Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.

Busy 

  • Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. 
  • Professors yelling
  • Dance steps heard on the floor.
  • People talking

Journal Entry 3: Lizzy Tauro
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Date: March 14

Location and Time: Hempstead, NY, Campus at 8:20 am

Far Sounds: giggling in the distance, car speeding by, trash truck brakes squealing

Medium Sounds: public safety walkie talkie going off, wind rustling the trees

Close Sounds: my footsteps on the pavement, my backpack rustling against my coat, birds chirping

Sound Description/Level: it sounds like an early morning. Everything is waking up and getting ready to start the day. Cars haven’t arrived yet and not many students have come to campus. 

One Word: quiet

Journal Entry #3- Gabby Macallister
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Date: March 13th, 2022

Location and Time: My bedroom, 5:58pm

Far Sounds: An airplane flying over, water pouring into the sink from our broken washer, buttons scraping the dryer, leaves rustling outside my window, truck driving by, the hum of the dryer

Medium Sounds: Evening doves chirping, a crow flying above and cawing, neighbor bringing their trash bin out, my radiator making a low humming noise, Nia walking up the basement stairs, Lizzy shutting her door upstairs, neighbor getting into car and starting it

Close Sounds: Lizzy singing “Smoking Out the Window” by Bruno Mars, Lizzy adjusting the clocks on the microwave and oven, someone washing dishes in the kitchen and humming, chickadee that is chirping outside my window

Sound Description/Level: Serene, calm with an occasional blip

One Word: Calming

Most Important Sounds: Evening doves chirping, Lizzy adjusting the clocks, neighbor dragging trash bin out, Lizzy serenading me

Journal Entry 3 Nicole Cullen
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Date and Location: March 13th, 6:15pm, Living Room

Far Sounds: Anna and Andrew talking upstairs, footsteps upstairs, cupboard being closed, bag being dropped on the floor, creaking of the radiators, car driving in the street/wheels on the road

Medium Sounds: Front door being opened and closed, front door locking, someone walking up the stairs, water heater clinking, faucet in kitchen running

Close Sounds: Creaking of sliding door/wind against the door, laptop keys clacking, low hum of mini fridge, laptop whirring, Joey talking with me, laptop being closed shut

General Sound level and Atmosphere: mostly quiet; what an average evening sounds like in our house with a steady soundscape that I recognize as normal

One Word: Comfortable

Three Important Sounds: Low hum of the mini fridge, Joey talking with me, footsteps upstairs

Sound Journal 3
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March 13th, 2:11 pm, The Adams Playhouse lobby

Far Sounds: Faint windy buzz from the air system, muffled sounds of dialog, doors opening and shutting

Medium Sounds: circus-like music, opera singing, laughter, applause, occasional gasps

Close Sounds: footsteps, keys clanking, voices and footsteps as people walk through, keyboard clicking

General Sound level and atmosphere: a medium level of sound, it rises and falls with the show, there’s a decent variety of sounds but the majority of them are muffled

One Word Description: Pensive

Three Essential Sounds: Music, applause, muffled dialog

Sound Journal 3 Eve Alas
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March 11th 2022

Eve Journal 2 

DATE: 03/09/2022

TIME: 11:00 pm 

LOCATION of the sound environment: In my room Bill of Rights 1113 

  • Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.

Sound of the trees moving

Some people yelling in the street

The cars on the road and the ambulance

  • Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you. 

Noise of doors closing

RA on duty

Voices from other students in the hallways

  • Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).

The wind hitting the windows

Typing in the computer

  • Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.

The level and activity of sound varies because inside it is really low and quiet and outside is really high and strong.

  • Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.

Unbalanced

  • Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. 
  • The wind hitting the windows
  • Ambulance and cars
  • Students opening and closing their doors

Sound Journal 3 – Michelle Pavloff
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Date: March 8, 2022

Location and Time: Psibrary in Lowe, 4:08 pm

Far Sounds: students rehearsing in musical theater class, footsteps going upstairs

Medium Sounds: freshman talking, laughing, and singing in the drounge, opening and closing of Lowe doors

Close Sounds: Nicole and Olivia typing on their computers, Olivia adjusting her chair 

Sound Description/ Level: Energetic, loud

One Word: Bustling 

Most important sounds: people talking, doors opening and closing

Sound Journal #3~~Kaitlyn Bancroft
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  1. March 11th- 6:00PM-Outside of Axinn Library 
  2. Far Sounds~  Clanking as the wind whips and makes the flag hit the flag pole, thudding of footsteps as people are walking off of the Unispan, wind whistling 
  3. Medium Sounds~ Chirping of birds in trees and the scratching/scuttling of squirrels running up trees and their branches. 
  4. Close Sounds~ Rustling of leaves from the tree I am sitting directly under, the labored breathing of the person next to me as they experience a cold chill from the wind in question. 
  5. There seems to be a lot of sound activity happening but the level it is being produced is very soft and would be considered background noise that goes unnoticed during the regular day. 
  6. Serene
  7. Chirping of the birds, the rustling of the leaves, the slight whistle of the wind-  these three sounds I would say are essential to keeping the sound environment in tact. They all represent sounds in nature, furthermore a representation of how serene nature can be if we stopped to listen. 

Journal Entry 2- Michelle Pavloff
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Date: February 27, 2022

Location and Time: The Joan and Donald Schaeffer Black Box Theater, 1:50 pm 

Far Sounds: Muffled chatter of audience members sitting farther away from me, the faint pinging of a sound effect from the show, a phone falling out of someone’s pocket and hitting the ground

Medium Sounds: Clanging of seats as people were getting settled, Sigma Capella’s ICCA set playing on a phone a few rows ahead of me, Avery, Ben, and Cindy talking, someone coughing

Close Sounds: Joey speaking to me, footsteps of people approaching seats

Sound Description/Level: Light, casual pre-show chatter, not too noisy

One Word: Cheery

Most Important Sounds: People talking, accapella music, jingling of seats 

Sound Journal Entry #2- Gabby Macallister
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Sunday, February 27th, 2:36pm

Location: The breakfast nook at Jane Street

Far Sounds: A car speeding on the main road, The Dixie Chicks playing in Lizzy’s room, the wind making the branches creak, trash bags rustling in the wind 

Medium Sounds: The dryer going, a metal button scraping in the dryer, Tori and Arianna laughing and talking, a car with a loud muffler driving by my house, doors creaking open and close, the wind whistling up against the windows, someone listening to country in the upstairs bathroom

Close sounds: My phone playing “More Than This” by One Direction, the mesh screen hitting the window, Tori and Arianna pouring water in the kitchen, chair creaking underneath me, radiator blowing out hot air in the bathroom

 Sound Description/Level: Loud but quiet, the only constant sound is the dryer going. It is like I am trying to focus on all of these sounds at once but they all happen so quickly. Sometimes all the sounds can be heard at once, but sometimes it is only the dryer that is going

One Word Description: Sporadic

Most important sounds: The mesh screen hitting on the window, Tori and Arianna laughing, metal button scraping in the dryer, chair creaking