1.Thursday 1/30/14 6:45pm. 614B Portsmouth House, Colonial Square.
2. Boys playing soccer in the hallway.
Cars on the street behind C-Square.
3. Suitemate humming as she gets ready to go out.
Shower head running.
Lana Del Rey playing somewhere next door.
4. Heater blowing out air.
5. Generally calm, save for soccer balls slamming into the walls that are jarring and alarming.
6. Dense
7. Soccer ball hitting the wall outside
Humming
Lana playing in background.
1- DATE-TIME-LOCATION of the sound environment
Thursday, January 30th, 2014. 8:44 P.M. EST. 959 Braxton St Uniondale, NY
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
• A car engine starting; the car suubsequentially driving away
• The whimper of a window left ajar against wind gusts
• The echo of the television hitting the kitchen wall
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
• An oven, metal creaking as it heats up
• Static bulb hum (from a Television)
• Inhalations & Exhalations of a sleeping Gary Newman
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
• The scratch of my hair against a polyester chairback
• Type-type-typing of a MacBook Pro
• Thumbpads striking the surface of the tablet I’m writing this on
• Blinking
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
It is quiet. There is noise, but the air is thick with introspection. The television is on low, unwatched. Background noise.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
Cavernous
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
• Echo
• Sleeping Gary
• The Howling Wind
1. 1/30/2013, 2:36 pm, my dorm room.
2. Identify sounds farthest from you: Sound of the cars passing by, rap music down the hall, doors closing.
3. Identify sounds at medium range: Sound of the heater, humidifier, and fridge.
4. Identify sounds closest to you: My bracelets shaking against each other, the typing noise on my iPad, and the noise of my fingers against the iPad screen.
5. General sound level and activity: Mostly soft low sound level except for the the music which is loud. The activity is low but constant. The noises are all continuous but rather mundane and common noises except for the music.
6. One word to describe the sound environment: Disruption.
7. Three essential sounds to the environment: The music, humming of the heater, and cars going by.
1- DATE-TIME-LOCATION of the sound environment
Thursday, January 30th, 2014. 2:36 p.m. EST. Room 107 Emily Lowe Hall, AKA “The Psibrary”
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
>The whirring of a distant machine, possibly something in relation to the heating.
>Footsteps from way upstairs, they’re more of a shuffle than a step.
>A professor speaking. The noise is way too muffled to even determine the gender.
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
>There’s a door that keeps slamming, the slam consists of two very rapid clicks, one for the collision of the door and the other for the locking mechanism.
>Voices in the next room over, students. The voices are orderly, not one speaks over the other.
>A stapler has been being used consistently for almost two minutes at this point. Followed by the occasional ‘Ah, shit’ from Angela.
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
>The noises nearest myself are very quiet.
>The clock ticks in a manner that makes you feel like it’s working too hard. The sound of a marker on an easel from the updated Act Facts of the day.
>Another clock is ticking, and it’s slightly out of sync with the other.
>A very calm tapping, something just short of a water droplet on the ceiling.
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
The sound level is a few steps above eerily silent. The voices at medium range allow for a relaxing background that isn’t all that unnerving.
The activity can be described as dispersed, free, very thinned out, and passing.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
>Sparse.
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
>Out of sync clocks
>Footsteps
>The orderly voices of students
1- January 29, 2014, 11:20am, Unispan
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
Furthest away from me, I can hear the sounds of people’s feet shuffling and crunching with snow and salt coating the bottoms of their shoes. I can hear talking at all different volumes: some yelling, some speaking softly, and some just chatting with their friends. I hear people’s breaths get heavier as they climb to the top and then a sigh of relief once they start walking down.
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
Closer to me, I hear the rustle of the jackets on the people next to me and the music coming from some kid’s headphones as he blares his music way too loudly. I hear the excitement in people’s voices as they excitedly talk about their weekend plans or how nervous they are for their course load. I hear the sound of the unfortunate soul who brought too many books to class and is trying to make it through the crowd without being run over.
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
I hear the sound of my breathe get heavier as I climb to the top of the unispan and my own sigh of relief when I start the climb down. I hear the rustle of my jacket as my arms swing side to side. I hear the beating of my heart and the thoughts in my head of all the things I need to accomplish today.
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
It is a loud and boisterous sound level as people quickly and excitedly make their way around campus. There is a lot going on and it’s hard to focus on specific details without getting lost in the hustle and bustle. It’s really interesting to try to focus on certain things though because it forces you to try to pinpoint where the sounds are coming from.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment.”
Rushed
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try and figure out what sounds make up this environment and which of those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment to stay intact.
The shuffling of feet with snow and salt on the bottom of their shoes, the sound of music from the kids’ headphones, the beating of my own heart as I climb and descend the unispan
Assign category “Journal Entry” to the post.
Add your first name as a tag. Add appropriate tags to the post (location, sounds, etc.).
1- January 29, 2014 9:50 am Bits & Bytes at a table
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try and figure out what sounds make up this environment and which of those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment to stay intact.
Assign category “Journal Entry” to the post.
Add your first name as a tag. Add appropriate tags to the post (location, sounds, etc.).
1 – 1/27/14 – 12:39pm – Axinn Library, second floor
2 – Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
Numerous students conversing in the adjacent room.
A group of people shuffling toward the stairwell door.
3 – Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
Students talking to each other on the red couches.
The student printer, printing out homework.
The “pinging” noise the elevator makes as it approaches the second floor, along with the opening of the elevator doors.
The stairwell door closing loudly.
4 – Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
My repetitious typing on the computer’s keyboard.
The drone of the heat registers in back of the computer monitors.
Students flipping through the sheets of their study guides near me.
5 – Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
The general sound level and rate of activity feel moderate for the second floor. The noises of the keyboards are generally consistent. The loud voices of the other students prove to be distracting as they carry out their conversation, while other students are completing assignments.
6 – Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
Busy.
7 – Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
The typing on the computer keyboards.
The elevator’s noises.
The consistent sound the heat registers make.
1- 9:13 PM, Axinn Library (Lobby), 1/28/14
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try and figure out what sounds make up this environment and which of those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment to stay intact.
1- 4/25/13 11:30 PM Lowe
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you- People outside on the quad screaming
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you- elevator dinging as the janitor uses it, music from Spring Awakening drifting in from the design studio
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you- typing as Nic and I each work on our respective projects, wind howling through the open window
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”- Busy
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. Spring Awakening, Nic and I typing, widn
1: Thursday, April 25, 2013, 4:41 pm, outside Alliance Hall
2: Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you. Today I had one of the cooler sound moments of my life. I was walking back from class, and I stopped outside my dormitory to listen for the starlings that live in the trees around North Campus. When they’re active in the spring, they’re very feisty in the late afternoon and make the trees buzz and quake with their frenzied chatter. They must not be living in these trees this year though, because I didn’t hear them. I could hear the exuberant chatter of all the students congregated at the picnic tables outside the student center, enjoying the warm weather and smoking hand-rolled cigarettes, and I could hear the whirring spokes of bikes as the occasional hipster pedaled past – but no starlings.
3: Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you. At my back, the set of handicap-accessible doors would sporadically make a punchy, metallic pop as the automatic lock would release and the entire thing would swing slowly open. The airy sound of the steady hydraulics could be discerned, as well as the miniscule yet sharp beep that the card swipe makes before granting a homebound student admittance.
4: Identify and list the sounds closest to you (– you can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant). I almost moved on from my spot when I noticed a very aggressive, throaty chirp from directly over my head. The bird call was at once so warbled and so squawky that it sounded more like the noise you’d hear from a mutated frog in a radioactive swamp. I looked up at a low-hanging branch and spotted a puny, grey-brown bird perched there, his chest swollen with the sound he was making and his twiggy legs leaning him forward. He looked absurdly eager for a bird. Just to test my whistling skills, I tried to imitate his call. I didn’t do it quite right, but to my pleasant surprise, the bird immediately repeated the modified call back to me. Of course, I then realized it was a mockingbird, a creature I’ve never encountered in real life. I tried a variety of different, completely made-up calls, and he returned each one with visible excitement. It was a really lovely experience.
5: Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity. The sound activity is very moderate – nothing painfully loud, yet nothing requiring closer listening.
6: Assign a one-word description to the “sound environment”. “Quaint”
7: Select and list 3 sounds that are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try and figure out what sounds make up this environment and which of those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment to stay intact. The industrial sounds of the hydraulic doors and the beeping card swipe don’t contribute much to the springtime vibe of the moment. However, the bike sounds, the cheery assemblage of students, and of course the highly conversational bird are all sounds that contribute to a cohesive sonic environment.