Category Archives: Journal Entry

Journal Entry #1
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  1. January 29th, 2020 @ 4:52pm in my bedroom.
  2. Cars passing by outside.
  3. Housemates talking downstairs, footsteps, cupboards opening/closing, sink running.
  4. Clock ticking, fridge running. 
  5. The sound level is quite low and overall isolated.  It’s quiet enough that I feel calm and relaxed.  The amount of sound activity is not overwhelming because I can focus on each specific sound and they don’t clash.  
  6. Peaceful.
  7. Clock ticking, fridge running, and distant voices. 

Journal Entry 10
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Location: Stuyvesant Hall, 4/20/2019, 12:30pm
Farthest: cars passing, horns beeping, 
Medium: water trickling, skateboard across sidewalk
Closest: buzz of an air heater, air wooshing, computer fan buzzing, door opening and closing
Sound level: medium
Description: relaxing 
Essential sounds: water, buzz of the heater, cars passing

Journal Entry 9
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Location: Times Square, 4/25/19, 6pm
Farthest: beeping, echoing of car horns, buzzing, chatter
Medium: whistling, other beeping, people talking, engines revving, car horns
Closest: people talking, car horns
Sound Level: medium
Description: busy
Essential Sounds: people talking, car horns, beeping

Journal Entry #11 – Michael DeRosa
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  1. Location – 4/25/19, 3:30pm, Quad Outside Bits
  2. Farthest sounds: people chatting on the grass, people playing frisbee, laughter
  3. Medium sounds: footsteps of people walking by, people yelling to each other, door to Bits opening/closing, breeze blowing
  4. Closets sounds: tress and plants rustling next to my bench, music playing
  5. Sound level is medium
  6. One word description: spring
  7. Three essential sounds: frisbee, breeze, tress rustling

Journal Entry #10 – Michael DeRosa
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  1. Location: 4/18/19, 8:30pm, HofUSA
  2. Farthest sounds: people chatting at booth, footsteps, employees calling out numbers
  3. Medium sounds: tv on in background, door opening/closing
  4. Closest sounds: chairs moving, buzzer sound, table rumbling
  5. Sound level is medium
  6. One word description: dinner
  7. Three essential sounds: employees calling numbers, people chatting, buzzers

Journal Entry #10 – Chris Z
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4/16/19, 8:04pm, my friend’s room in Vander Poel as they were finishing cutting someone’s hair.

Farthest away sounds: Voices in the hallway, a trash can in the hallway banging.

Medium sounds: Music playing from a laptop, footsteps.

Close-range sounds: Loud talking inside room, vacuum picking up hair.

General sound level: high, medium sound for sound activity.

One-Word Description: Cacophonous

3 essential sounds: Loud talking, vacuum, music from laptop

Journal Entry 8
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Location: Hofstra parking lot, 1:15 am, 4/11/19
Farthest: wooshing/hum of HVAC, cars passing, engines humming
Medium: footsteps, people talking 
Closest: breathing, birds chirpping
Sound Level: low
Description: peaceful 
Essential Sounds: birds chirping, breathing, wooshing

Journal Entry #9 – Michael DeRosa
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  1. Location: 4/11/18, 7:15pm, Witches’ Brew
  2. Farthest sounds: workers cooking in the kitchen, distant conversations
  3. Medium sounds: clink of coffee mugs, footsteps
  4. Closest sounds: indie music playing from speakers, waitress taking orders
  5. Sound level is medium
  6. One word description: relaxed
  7. Three essential sounds: indie music, coffee mugs, waitress

Journal Entry #9 – Chris Z
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4/7/19, 8:25pm, arcade in Long Beach during a film shoot

Sounds farthest away: Footsteps, paper shuffling.

Sounds at medium range: Sounds of arcade games, air conditioner humming.

Close-range sounds: People talking, lighting stand being set up/placed down, lights being put together.

General sound level is high, intense level of sound activity.

One-word description: Frantic

3 essential sounds: Arcade game sounds, people talking, lights being put together.