1) Feb. 3, 2011; 6:15 p.m.; dorm room
2) Muffled talking in the hallway, footsteps above andoutside, the “s” sounds of words from conversations
3) Air blowing from the heater, hum of the refrigerator
4) Typing on the keyboard, turning pages, roommate’s voice, sniffling, coughing
5) Low sound level, but sounds are easily drowned out by the hum of the heater.
6) Mellow
7) Heater, muffled talking, footsteps
Time/Date/Locale: 2/3/11 5:30p.m.- Bookstore
Far Away Sounds: People talking in the student Center, Rowing Machine, Shouting
Middle Range Sounds: The cash register beeping, Cashier helping customers, people talking in line to check out, bags rustling, people dropping there book bags
Close sounds: My own breathing, my keys rustling as a hide the fact i’m recording during work, someone high fiving me, my stomach rumbling, the pages of the book I keep flipping through.
Atmospheric Volume: It is rather loud in the student center, but not as loud where I am. There is a constant level of commotion from the cafeteria while it only becomes loud when people in line in the store start talking or arguing with the cashier.
Description: Busy
Essentials: I believe that the constant background yelling, the register beeping and the rustling of merchandise bags are the essentials to this particular environment.
Date: February 3, 2011
Location: Tabor Place, East Meadow, NY
Time: 11:30 pm
Far sounds: George Lopez’s voice, talking about the Packers and Steelers.
Moderately close sounds: The gum popping, the television (specifically the George Lopez show), laughter from the audience members in the show, Pat almost inaudibly asking me a question.
Close sounds: Laura coughing and sniffling her nose, the noise when the volume is increased on a Mac computer, and Laura talking simple words like “yeah” and “oh goodness”, etc., and a large sigh.
Description: Sickly, just kidding, I would say restless.
Recreating the Environment: Coughing, a television with a late night talk show playing in the background, gum popping, a computer.
1) Bits and Bytes. 2/3/2011. 6:10pm.
2) Farthest sound: People talking, zippers, the television
3) Medium sounds: Footsteps, sniffling, laughing
4) Closest sounds: Coughing, sniffling, chewing, sickly breathing
5) Sound level: Rather loud (It was bits during dinner time)
6) Sound environment: Chaotic
7) Essential sounds: Many jumbled voices, footsteps, coughing
DATE-TIME-LOCATION: 2/3/11; 2:35PM; Breslin Hall 029
FARTHEST SOUNDS: backpack zipper, professor talking, faint noise of class across the hall
MEDIUM SOUNDS: sniffling, papers shuffling
NEAR SOUNDS: pages turning, steam hissing from coffee cup, pens clicking
SOUND LEVEL: moderate (professor talking with a few sounds here and there)
SOUND ENVIRONMENT: classroom
ESSENTIAL SOUNDS: professor talking, pens clicking, pages turning
