1. 4/19 – 8:30 ish PM – Adams Playhouse
2. Someone opening the stage door, Rachel laughing in the back of the theater
3. The dancers “tapping” (they were Oxfords, not tap shoes though) – I could clearly hear the tapping from the stage, but I could also hear the tapping just as clear coming from behind me. It was a very WEIRD effect.
4. Rebecca and Jenna chatting beside me
5. The sound level was fairly high, as those dancers can tap pretty loud! The amount of sound activity was also pretty high, as there were a lot of dancers up there in addition to the other random sounds.
6. Insanity
7. The tapping, talking, laughing
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Journal Entry 11
1. End of unispan, by library between classes
2. sound from the outside as the door opens, voices, a skateboard going by outside, footsteps
3. laughter, voices go by, lively conversations, footsteps, bags bouncing
4. peoples clothing rustling, myself, the music in someones big headphones
5. High volume and lots of activity
6. Lively
7. conversation/voies, footsteps, doors opening and closing
Sound Journal #11
1: Monday, April 15, 2013, 5:11 pm, Social Sports Kitchen
2: Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
The large, wooden front door to the restaurant is propped open, so as business men and women trickle in through the swishing, inner set of glass doors and make a beeline for happy hour at the bar, I can hear the violent swiping sound of cars whipping down the turnpike at illegal speeds.
3: Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
The bay of televisions hanging from the ceiling is playing multiple news stations. On a normal day, the manager Michelle sets things up to have the 30+ televisions to play coverage of multiple sports games and will play the audio to the most popular one or put popular music over everything. Today Michelle is playing the audio to the news, but somehow the audio to multiple televisions is playing simultaneously. This creates a strange, movie montage effect of many newscasters grimly reading the same sharply enunciated words over and over, echoing each other’s “Boston Marathon,” “terror,” “bombing occurred,” etc, as the tally of the injured climbs from 40+ to 80+ to 183.
4: Identify and list the sounds closest to you (– you can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
The guests at the bar in front of me eat in silence, eyes glued to the screens. Nothing emphasizes silence more than the sound of a dozen people setting down glasses and bottles on a lacquered, wooden bar, scraping forks and knives against porcelain and not saying a word to one another. The only people speaking consistently are a woman under TV 8 who keeps saying slowly to herself with sincere despair, “Oh my God, and my coworker, who alternately queries, “You need a refill, buddy?” and makes an unfathomably distasteful joke about amputees.
5: Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
The televisions are loud, but the actual level of activity and the energy of this activity are very, very low and somber.
6: Assign a one-word description to the “sound environment”.
“Sober”
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 cars outside don’t play much of a part in the aural atmosphere, nor do my coworker’s inane comments. The abnormally slow pace of the dish-and-silverware clattering and the accompanying reticence, coupled with the intense choral effect of the televisions on blast and the punctuation of the woman’s upset “oh my gods” are the most necessary for setting the sonic tone of the day.
Journal Entry 11
1- 4/18/13 2:00 A.M. My Room
2- very light talking
3- Tv on
4- Vibrations in the wall next to me, my breathing
5- Low but loud enough to keep me awake
6- Obnoxious
7- TV, Bass Vibrations, Breathing
It was weird, I had earplugs in but some specific frequency sounds could get through
Journal Entry #11
1) 4/19/13, 3:41am, Conference Room
2) The wind outside, Noah coughing in the studio.
3) The hum of the radiator, the buzz of silence.
4) My own breathing, my fingers typing.
5) The sound level and activity are very low.
6) Tranquil
7) The buzz of the silence, the very slight wind outside, my own breathing.
Journal Entry 11
1. Friday, April 19, 2013, 2:02 am, Graham’s Bedroom
2. Sounds Farthest: the house settling? A car passing on the street.
3. Sounds Medium Distance: Graham’s friends on X-Box live headset
4. Closest sounds: Graham talking to his friends over X-Box live, Call of Duty Zombies playing, going from a lot of shooting to the main menu.
5. Not particularly loud, but it only seems loud because of the lateness of the hour
6. Disoriented
7. The shootings in CoD, Graham talking, the buzz of his friends talking over headset.
Journal Entry 11
1- 4/17/13, 8:30 PM, Lowe 22
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you- the rehearsal of The Life of the Theatre going on on the floor above us, they are jumping, screaming, and throwing things, causing our entire room to rattle and shake
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you- Matt and Rita are working through their scene, someone else has just flushed the toilet in the bathroom,
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you- the clacking as Tanner types details into the rehearsal report, the soft scratches as I take notes on the scene
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity- loud
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”- difficult
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. screaming coming from upstairs, Matt and Rita working the scene, my taking notes
Journal Entry #11
1) 11:10pm, Lib/Rep Courtyard, 4/18/2013
2) Sliding doors to Republic Hall, Doors opening electronically into and out of the RSR booth, People talking outside of the complex/courtyard by University College Hall
3) People walking from Liberty to Republic or vice-versa and chatting during the walk
4) People standing next to me discussing their strategy for the Hofstra vs. Zombies midnight mission that will be happening this same night
5) Fairly quiet in volume and low in activity (I think they’re trying to be discreet)
6) Strategy
7) The people convening about the mission, the doors opening to complex, the people walking inside the complex
Journal Entry # 11
1- 04/11/13-10:01 AM–Walking to campus from home on a sunny day.
2- Sounds farthest away from you: Multiple different kinds of birds chirping, sound coming from all different directions. This strikes me; I don’t think I had ever heard as many birds chirping at the same time in my life. They sound very happy.
3- Sounds at medium range: Cars approach and drive away, the sound of my feet as they walk on the sidewalk. It sounds gravely.
4- Sounds closest to you: The strong wind as it hits my ears.
5- General sound level and amount of sound activity: Sound level and activity are at a medium. There are not many different kinds of sounds but rather a plethora of the same sound; different birds chirping from all directions. I feel completely enveloped in the bubbly birds’ chirping and, if I close my eyes, it sounds like I could be at a bird sanctuary or an open field.
6- One word description to the “sound environment”: Bright.
7- 3 sounds essential to the sound environment: If I could say the different kinds of birds chirping are three essential sounds I would, as the different birds had different tones and tempos that all created a sense of harmony. However, if I must choose other types of sound not related, I would choose the gravely walking on the sidewalk and the strong wind hitting my ears. This soundscape makes me feel very alive.
Journal Entry #11
1. 4/18 – 10:45 PM – Conference room
2. Someone walking down the hall, some yelling from outside the window, chairs scraping in the studio
3. Of Monsters and Men playing on the computer
4. Nic and Sophie arguing about whether or not searching for naked men and women is research for figure drawing, the table creaking
5. The general sound level is pretty low. It’s starting to get late so everything is winding down. The amount of sound activity is medium-ish. There’s a few things going on, but mild compared to how this area of Lowe usually is.
6. Silly
7. Nic/Sophie, Of Monsters and Men, yelling outside