Class 12:00PM School of Communication
Sounds closest to me- Sounds of a video playing from the speaker my professor is playing
Sounds medium distance- a tour guide giving a tour through the wall right behind me
Sounds furthest – people lightly typing on laptops
sound level – pretty loud. The contrasting sounds of the tour and video are overstimulating
description – overstimulating
essential sounds – the tour and the video
4/28/24 – 1:54 PM- New Paltz UCAT UPL BUS.
1. Furthest sound- Sounds of cars whooshing by the window, running water from a lake.
2. Medium Sound- The sound of the engine of the bus roaring.
3. Closest Sound- “Closest sound? My ass talking your ear off” Meagan R., Meagan R. talking about the wicked movie, and the couple in front of us talking.
4. Sound Level and Activity- Loud! Meagan is Puerto Rican. Also loud when the bus is zooming down the road, but low when it stops! (and I don’t mean the bus)
5. Descriptor- Perfect.
6. Essential sounds: The most lovely voice in the world, bus, soft murmurs.
1- 4/24/24- 11:20AM – Bits & Bytes
2- Furthest: The sounds from the workers cooking, the slight hum of the building, the fan blowing
3- Medium: People chatting at the table next to me, the workers having a conversation at the cash register, a phone ringing across the room.
4- Closest: My friend telling me a story, my bracelets jangling as I type, keyboards clacking, brief clips of people’s conversations as they walk by.
5- Sound level and activity: low, it’s still early and there’s not many people inside, the calm before the storm of common hour
6- Usual
7- The chatter from people, kitchen sounds, my friend’s voice
4/12/2024, 5:29PM. My room
Sounds farthest away from me: cars driving down the street, music playing a few houses down
sounds at medium range: birds chirping outside my window, people walking around the house
sounds closest to me: my fingers tapping the keys on my computer, my stomach growling, my own breathing
The sound level is quiet and the sound activity is consistently low
One word description: peaceful
Essential sounds: Footsteps, cars, birds
2. Sounds further away from me – birds very quietly chirping, wind hitting trees lightly
3. Sounds medium range – footsteps of someone walking to the bathroom
4. Sounds closest to me – a rooster being loud. (the room I was in is right in front of the backyard where the roosters are)
5. The sound level is pretty low and quiet until every once and a while the rooster makes a loud and abrupt change. Sound activity is pretty low as well, not much is going on besides the rooster
6. Morning
7. the rooster, and the footsteps
1- 4/10/24 – 12:35 – Tables outside of Bits ‘n’ Bytes
2- People talking on the other side of the quad, cars driving down the turnpike, shuffled steps on the concrete.
3- Birds chirping, someone’s heels clacking on the cement as they walk, leaves rustling in the wind, someone’s keys jangling as they walk.
4- My friend typing at the computer next to me, an airplane flying overhead, someone laughing at the table next to me, the ice in my drink shifting as I pick it up and take a sip, the sound of someone’s skateboard as they skate by my table.
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity – Sound level: low and quiet; Sound activity: relatively high, there are a lot of different noises and sounds outside.
6- Peaceful.
7- The birds, the ambience voices throughout the quad, and the steps and general movement of the people passing by.