Date: February 2, 2012
Time: 10:15 pm
Location: 2nd Floor Lounge Vander Poel Hall
Farthest Sounds: Doors closing down the hall, people throwing out their trash in the hallway, people talking in other rooms.
Moderate Sounds: Mtv, people talking
Closest Sounds: My computer fan humming
General Sound Level: There is a steady buzz of noise, but it is somewhat quite and peaceful.
One Word: Relaxed
Recreating the sound: Doors banging, TV commercials, girls laughing
1. 2/2/12 Au Bon Pain, Hofstra University: 5:45 pm
2. The sounds farthest away from me are chairs scraping the floor as they are pulled out and then pushed in. Some people are talking to each other in normal voices.
3. At medium range, there are people talking as well, and their voices are louder than the people far away from me. A girl laughs noticeably and her laugh is very high pitched and startling. A speaker is playing music on my left side. The song playing is “I Feel Like a Woman”. The volume seems very loud for such a small area.
4. The sounds closest to me are people talking behind me. Someone is playing with a set of keys and I can hear them jingling repeatedly, almost like they are hitting something, maybe the table.
5. The general sound level is very loud and harsh. Sounds are coming from all directions except for my right because I am near the window. There is constant noise that seems to fill the room.
6. I would describe this sound environment as “bustling”.
7. Three sounds essential to the sound environment are the people talking around me, the chairs scraping over the floor as people go to sit down with their food, and the music playing over the speaker. Together these sounds are clues to the fact that the environment is a place where people can leisurely enjoy food, conversation, and music, and the atmosphere with these sounds conveys a sense of community and familiarity.
1- February 2, 2012, 8:45, Dorm Room – Lieden House- Netherlands North
2- Lots of obnoxious yelling and screaming of male voices
3- Doors opening and closing. A guy is talking on the phone in the hallway
4- The whir of the computer, my suitemates talking and the refrigerator is running, the shower water running.
5- The sound level is extremely loud as quiet have not started yet
6- Rambunctious
7- the obnoxious yelling, doors opening and closing, the sound of the refrigerator running
1- 2/2/12 -5:52-Design Studio
2- I hear the sound of someone typing on their laptop, papers shuffling, random objects hitting desks/shuffling, pencils moving accross the page, and hands swiping across pieces of paper.
3- There is an awesome crazy eclectic remix coming from someone’s laptop speakers. The remix includes such artists as Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Michael Jackson.
4- People are speaking, some loud, others not so loud.
5- There is generally a lot of sound activity in the room. Even when things are “quiet” You can still hear the sound of music and people typing on their laptops, shuffling papers, etc.
6- Busy.
7- The sound of typing on laptops, music, and people talking.
1. 2012-02-02 at 5:00 PM, Sitting at a table outside Bits ‘n Bites.
2. Sound furthest away: An aircraft above our heads, rumbling across the sky to or from one of the Long Island airports.
3. Sound medium range away: Cars on Hempstead Turnpike driving past just North of us.
4. Sound closest to you: Low conversations of people walking around us, doors opening and closing in Memorial Hall.
5. General Sound Level: It’s a quiet evening at Hofstra, a lull in time before another wave of classes gets out. A few people are walking, but nobody is too loud. It’s unseasonably warm for February, but still, nobody wants to be outside for too long. The doors swing open and shut regularly, dinner time at Memorial Hall. The hum of traffic remains behind it all (thought not to busy, and horns are a rarity), while leaves and branches rustle above our heads. Not much going on for the moment.
6. One word description of the moment: Subdued
7. Three sounds that “make up” the environment: the traffic on Hempstead Tpk, the rustling of the leaves above, and the conversations of those walking by us.
1- 2/2/12, 1:30am, my dorm room.
2- The sounds of laughter and talking coming from the side walkout side.
3- The buzz of my refrigerator, voices from the room next door, a door closing down the hall and the heavy breathing of my roommate.
4- The tick of my clock next to me, and my own breathing.
5- the buzz of the refrigerator and tick of the clock are constant and my roommate’s breathing has become a steady pattern. Every once in while I can make out the conversations coming from next door. Everything sounds muffled and soft.
6- Soothing
7- My roommate’s breathing, the buzz of the refrigerator, the tick of my clock.