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1- 4/23 Student Center dining room 8:00pm

2- The smoothie machine grinds loudly on and off and two girls in the line are fooling around a little, and their laughter echoes

3- The boys at the table next to us are listening to rap music on speakers, alternately singing along, talking and “oohing” over things.

4- My table is filled with the rugby team, who, as usually, is extremely loud. Two people are deciding whether the long smoothie line is worth braving, another is begging them to get something they like so she can have some. A group of people are yelling across the table to eachother about the details of the last game we played. The girls next to me are discussing getting together to watch a movie later.

5- Sound level and activity are medium high

6- animated

7- the grinding of the smoothie machine, the girls yelling about the game and the tin-y rap music playing from small speakers.

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1) 4/25/13, 10:16pm, Carrie Rehearsal Break

2) People walking in the hallway outside, the door of the bathroom being shut, the wind outside

3) Everyone talking, drums playing, piano playing, some unidentifiable scraping noise I don’t want to know about, what seems to be throwing and catching, which I should probably put a stop to.

4) One of my ASMs pencil scratching, a box opening next to me (bet someone’s stealing my candy), my own keyboard strokes, zippering.

5) The sound level is high, as is the activity level. Always.

6) Typical.

7) Everyone talking, piano playing, keyboard strokes.

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1- 2/24/13 11:30 AM Emily Lowe quad

2- Music from Earth Day festival in the distance, voices from over by bits

3- Heels against the concrete path, a traditional (native american esq?) drum lesson

4- Pages of a book flipping, me slurping a milkshake, two friends practicing lines

5- A calming environment, not much sound at all, but enough so that I couldn’t fall asleep

6- Serene, Springy, Relaxing.

7- Music, the constant drum beat patterns, the book

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1)      4/21/13 4:00 P.M Strawberry Fields, Central Park, NYC

2)      Street traffic, footsteps in the distant, the wind

3)      People taking photos, talking, closer footsteps,

4)      Band playing “Band on the Run” by Paul McCartney and the Wings acoustic, friends next to me talking, laughing , my own breathing, tapping feet to music

5)      Its pretty animated without being too loud

6)      Lively

7)      The music, the talking, the picture taking

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1- Date/Time/Location.
4.24.13/11:10pm/My car in the parking lot of Nassau.

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
I can hear people speaking, maybe the smokers that frequent the benches in front of the residence hall, but they are too far away to discern any specific words.

3- Identify and list the sounds at medium range from you.
I can hear a car door slam, and a car beep as it’s locked.  I can also hear  a car driving by, maybe looking for somewhere to park.  I can also hear the slight rustle of the trees in front of my car with the slight wind.

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
Ingrid Michaelson playing from my car stereo, softly, then the mechanical noise the CD player makes when a song ends as it switches to the next song.  I can hear the soft hum of my car’s engine as well.

5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
Low activity, very quiet and calm.

6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
Serene.

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
The car driving by, Ingrid Michaelson playing, the hum of my car’s engine.

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1) 4/25/2013, 4:40PM, by Calkins Hall

2) The sound of someone’s suitcase (or something on wheels) being dragged across the sidewalks. People chatting

3) More people chatting closer, someone hitting their bag/backpack against another person (making a “thud”)

4) Someone rustling as they try to get comfortable and sleep on the quad, my own rustling as I adjust my position, more and more idle chattering, a couple of yawns here and there

5) The general sound level is rather low but there is a lot of activity

6) Passings

7) The “thud” from the bag/backpack, the suitcase or like object being rolled around, the rustling of people adjusting their positions

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1- 04/26/13-12:07AM–My house, Eliza’s room.

2- Sounds farthest away from you: Cars passing by outside, sounds very very faint. If I weren’t specifically concentrating on the sounds far away I would not notice their presence in the soundscape.

3- Sounds at medium range: The song “I’ll Slip Away” by Rodriguez.

4- Sounds closest to you:  Stef, Chris and Eliza talking and laughing loudly.

5- General sound level and amount of sound activity: Sound activity is very loud. We are all telling stores and laughing and listening to music at a pretty high volume.

6- One word description to the “sound environment”: Boisterous.

7-  3 sounds essential to the sound environment: Loud laughter, talking and “I’ll Slip Away”.

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1. April 25, 4:00 pm, the quad outside Emily Lowe

2. Wheels on a bag rolling across the sidewalk, traffic from the turnpike

3. Keys jangling, people talking, playhouse doors opening and closing

4. Footsteps on grass, people talking and laughing, wind in the tree branches

5. High energy. Loud and excited, but also oddly soothing and comforting. Not so loud as to be unpleasant.

6. Fun.

7. Car traffic, talking, laughter

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1. Sun. 4/21 Dance show tech rehearsal around 11:45 from stage left
2. Laughter, muffled voices, someone coughing, misc. clanking from the woodshop, yelling from the house
3. Curtain being closed, footsteps, a phone vibrating on the table, shop door closing, scrim coming down, music starting and stopping, keys jingling
4. My friends headphones, door opening and closing, friends clothes rustling
5. lots of different sounds but low volume
6. Focused
7. Footsteps, Muffled voices, Music

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1- 4/20/13 – 11:13 A.M. – Conference room
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you. – Furthest from me I can hear the sounds of a drumline practicing for a performance. The drums appeared to be a part of a larger band that was getting ready to perform in the stadium. The sound of the drums rattled across the campus and as I sat working on my homework I could distinctly hear each tap of the snare drum at a volume that I could not block out of my head as I worked on my paper. All three windows in the room were closed at the time and the sound of the band was pretty much impossible to hear. The sound of the snare drums were not blaring but had a clean and crisp slap that echoed into the space I was working in.
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you. – At a medium range from me I can hear a man just outside of Lowe. He is standing between Lowe and Memorial on the phone with someone that he is conducting business with. Again, all the windows are closed in the room but I can distinctly hear every word this man is saying as well as the clear diction from the man he is speaking to on the other end of the phone. It is interesting as to how this tone of the other man’s voice was able to pierce through the windows so cleanly that I could clearly understand everything the man was saying. 
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant). – Closest to me I can hear the sound of Phil walking to and from the bathroom as he slams his feet into the ground walking back and forth. I can always tell who is walking in the hallway simply based upon the rhythm and noise they make while walking. I know that this noise was Phil as each step had a soft pounding noise from the rubber soles of his converse. 
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity. – There are many noises effecting the space in which I am sitting and they are all coming from different places but none are from within the room I am sitting in. Despite the fact that each noise is having to travel through another medium to reach me in the conference room. They are all very clear and recognizable sounds. 
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”. – muffle 
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try to 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. –  Snare Drum, footsteps, voices on phone