1. 2/6/26 – 7:01 PM – Student Center Starbucks
2. FARTHEST – People talking, a chair scraping against the floor
3. MEDIUM – music, paper crinkling
4. CLOSEST – a blender, 2 baristas talking, a trash bag being changed
5. It’s quiet, not a lot of people are around and sound activity is consistent but distant
6. Description: Monotonous
7. Essential sound: chairs scraping, people talking, blender
1- Date, Time, Location: 2/6/26. 7:00pm. Mama Lombardi’s restaurant. Holbrook, NY
2- Far Range– Plates clattering in the kitchen, cutlery clattering into buckets, man yelling in italian, kitchen door being swung open
3- Medium Rage– Jazz music being played, Other tables talking indistinguishably, order being taken from a table, plates being placed onto a table, wooden chairs scraping against the wooden floor, footsteps with different shoes types walking across the floor
4- Close Rage– Fork scraping against plate, Family talking about phone bills, Glasses being picked up and drank from, glasses case being open and closed
5- General sound level– There is a large amount of sound. Constant talking and buzzing of people.
6- One word description– bustling
7- 3 essential sounds-Jazz music being played, Tables talking indistinguishably, forks scraping against plates
1- 02/02/26-1:30 pm – Office of Residence Life
2- Furthest Sounds: Cisco phone ringing, people saying “hello this is the residence office, how can i help you?, door slamming.
3- Medium Range: Printer printing, the shredder making a crunching/buzzing noise.
4- Closest Range: Music coming out of a person headphone, someone typing on this keyboard.
5- The general sound level was in the medium. Nothing too loud or too quiet and the sound activity is average/moderate sound activity.
6- Chaos
7- Clicking sounds on the keyboard, shredder making buzzing/crunching sound after putting the paper in, and Cisco phone ringing.
2/5/26, 10:30pm, Hofstra Information Center
Furthest sounds: the cars driving outside, the siren of the passerby ambulance, the opening and closing of the sliding door to the outside world
Medium sounds: My coworkers conversing, their phone ringing, the persona. few desks away scrolling reels on their phone.
Closest sounds: The phone ringing, the voice of the people talking on said phone, my keyboard clacking, the creaking of my chair
Sound level: medium, nothing is too loud, and it does have it’s moments of silence, but there is always some sound going on and the office phone is loud enough next to me to awake me from my stupors and make me do my job.
One word description: tiring
3 essential sounds: the ringing phone, the voices of the callers, and my coworkers chatting.
1 – 1/30/26, 11:02 am – Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra University
2 – Co-workers making small talk, Professors talking to students, Air Ventilation System
3 – Keys jiggling, Office door opening, Feet walking across the carpet
4 – Professors talking about a student meeting, Keyboard clacking, Clicking of a computer mouse, Computer notification, 80s/90s radio
5 – The overall sound level is low(quiet), and the amount of sound activity is moderate, yet frequent.
6 – Routine
7 – Clicking of the mouse, Keyboard clacking, Professors talking to students
February 5th–10:09 a.m.–Starbucks in the Student Center
1. 5/3/25 – 4:30 PM – William T. Rogers Middle School in Kings Park, NY
2. Far Sounds: I hear cars accelerating on the nearby road, ambulance sirens, and birds chirping.
3. Medium Sounds: I hear people talking, the clanks of color guard flag poles, and strong gusts of wind.
4. Close Sounds: I hear people counting for dance choreography, band members playing brass instruments, and percussionists banging their drums.
5. The general sound level is loud. The sound activity is ongoing.
6. The sound environment is energetic.
7. Three sounds essential to the sound environment are band members playing brass instruments, percussionists banging their drums, and the clanks of color guard flag poles.
May 4th – 9:12 am – Living room
Far sounds: Truck beeping going in reverse, birds chirping, car driving by
Medium sounds: coffee machine brewing in the kitchen
Close sounds: TV playing CBS: Sunday Morning, My parents talking to each other
General level: Low
Calm
TV, Talking