Thunder During Midterm

  1. April 6, 4:24, 201 Brower Hall
  2. Far Sounds: Thunder rumbling
  3. Medium Sounds: Classmates murmuring in excitement and professor telling everyone to be quiet
  4. Close Sounds: Pen scratching across my paper
  5. Sound Level: Medium
  6. Environment: Explosive and then subdued
  7. Essential Sounds: Thunder, classmates talking, scratching of my pen

Journal Entry

  1. Sitting in my room on Thursday, April 6 at 10 pm
  2. Far: people across the hall talking about life
  3. Medium: the boys upstairs horsing around, my roommate talking to her boyfriend on Facetime
  4. Closest: the clicking of the keys on my keyboard
  5. Level: quiet
  6. peaceful
  7. clicking of the keys, the boys upstairs and my roommate chatting

Hilton Hotel

Date/Location: 4-1-17, 2:30pm, Hilton Hotel

far sounds: someone talking in the hallway

medium sounds: heat blowing out of the heating system, stepsister typing on her laptop, stepsister moving her feet around

close sounds: stepsister asking me an excel question, stepsister place her phone on the table

overall level: low

descriptive word: quiet

3 words: stepsister, heat, asking questions

Sound Observation

  1. 3/26/17  4:40 PM  amtrak train
  2. farthest: train moving on tracks, bathroom door sliding open
  3. medium: people talking, typing, crinkling from opening food items
  4. closest: podcast through my headphones, the opening of a plastic bin
  5. A lot of sound activity, but sound level relatively quiet.
  6. Busy
  7. podcast, people talking, train moving on tracks

Journal 8

  1. 3/31/17, 12:09, Estabrook 10th floor lounge
  2. Farthest: people talking in a room nearby
  3. Medium: the hum of a computer getting warmed up and preparing to play a movie
  4. closest: Bryan is moving chairs and it is making a loud screeching noise
  5. there is quite a bit of sound coming from the lounge
  6. excited
  7. the computer, and bryan talking/moving chairs

Estabrook 6th floor lounge

Date/Location: 3/30, 12:20am, Estabrook 6th floor lounge

far sounds: people talking, someone moving around in room above me

medium sounds: hum from the light above me, 2 other people in lounge typing on laptops, beep from elevator, elevator moving

close sounds: 2 other people in lounge talking to each other, someone’s door open and close on floor, someone walking in flipflops in the bathroom, shower

sound level: medium

descriptive word: relaxing

3 important words: elevator sounds, laptop typing, 2 people talking to each other

Sound Observation

  1. Sitting in the Adams playhouse during intermission of Complete Works on Thursday Night
  2. Farthest: people on the balcony chatting, the buzz from the stage lights
  3. Medium: the people at the back of the orchestra talking, the sound board opt talking on headset
  4. Closest: Group next to me talking about Rue Paul’s drag race, my coughing
  5. Loud
  6. Anxious
  7. Headset chatter, the group next to me, the balcony