Monthly Archives: March 2012

Sound Observation
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1) 3/9/12, 12:19 am, My dorm room

2) a faint yell of people in the courtyard

3) a few muffled voices from behind closed doors in the house

4) my roommate typing on the keyboard and clapping her hands as something good happened on her tv show

5) it’s very quiet

6) hushed

7) for a typical Thursday night/Friday morning, it is oddly quiet. the most important sounds are the muffled voices of the males in the house, the random furniture being moved around in an unknown location, and my roommate typing away on her keyboard

Journal Entry #6
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1- 2012-03-08 6:30 PM in the Hofstra Gym, while stretching/relaxing after a run.

2-Basketball players on the courts downstairs.  The front door opening and closing.

3- The water fountain being used, clink of weights, runners on the upstairs track, music on the loudspeaker

4- People shouting, heavy breathing, the pounding of people using the treadmills, my own still-elevated heartbeat.

5- Very loud, very busy

6- Active

7- Pounding Treadmills, music on the loudspeaker, breathing (including my own).

Field Recording 5
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Listen to

Liberty Hall at 21:40, 2012-03-08

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The laundry machines around the corner

Colin Creegan and Sarah Mori talking about sports ( A topic I don’t understand)

A freshman playing harmonica (Your typical collage instrument to get all of the ladies, So I’m told)

Adam Patrick Seeman being impressed.

Somebody meowing (?)

People clapping for the freshman’s harmonica playing abilities

 

 

A typical night in Liberty Hall.

Journal Entry #6
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1. 3/7/12   12:30 am   My suite on campus

2. The sounds farthest away from me are people banging on the floor above me/my ceiling and talking.

3. The sounds at a medium range from me are my suitemates laughing in their bedroom and the t.v. that is on.

4. The sounds closest to me are my HVAC running heat and my clock ticking on the wall. I can also hear my breathing.

5. The general sound level is somewhat low and the activity is moderate, but there is a mix between sporadic and steady sounds.

6. I would describe this sound environment as “distracting”.

7. Three sounds essential to this sound environment are my suitemates  laughing, the people above me making banging sounds, and my clock ticking.  These are the usual sounds I hear from my room when trying to go to bed.

Field Recording #5
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3/7/12  Hofstra Special Collections Dept.

Sounds heard: In the beginning a girl is rustling papers.  Then you hear me take a cart through one door and then through another.  Then it is pushed down a tile floor hallway and you can hear the rattling of the wheels and the cart.  There is a high squeak which is my shoe sole getting caught on the floor.  Another door is opened with a loud beeping noise, and the cart is pushed down another area and into an aisle of books.

Journal Entry #6
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Date: March 8, 2012

Time: 10:30 am

Location: The student center

Farthest Sounds: People ordering food, food being made, people talking at the atrium tables, blender from juice event.

Medium Sounds: The scrapping of chairs, forks and knvies clinking, people talking

Closes sounds: My phone vibrating, my breathing, the shuffling of my papers.

 

General Sound: Loud

Environment: Hectic

3 Sounds: People talking, chairs being moved, clinking of silverware.

sound observation #6
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3/5/12 around 1pm Art History

2. heater, hum of the projector

3. teacher rambling about the Protestant Reformation, general rustling, coughs and sniffles

4. the girl behind me pounding the keys on her laptop, the same girl blowing her nose unrelentless and unnecessarily loud.

5. there is a lot of activity but most are fairly quiet.

6. distracting

7. the loud typing, the obnoxious nose blowing, other distracting bodily noises.

Journal Entry #6
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1- 3/6, Noon, Basic stage combat class

– Sit, close eyes and allow the sounds around you to envelope you, listen for all of the sound in your environment.

2- Music from the dance class in Lowe 108. Voices in the hallway.
3- The chatter coming from the group next to me, the clash of their swords. Robert talking to a group across the room, the grunts of people as they are stabbed and die.
4- the crash of my own sword as Kathryn disarms me. The noise Kathryn makes as she stabs me, my own grunting as I am stabbed.
5- Constantly noisy and loud. The crashing of the sword dropping makes me jump as they happen every couple of minutes.
6- Dangerous
7- Robert talking, swords hitting each other, and grunting as people are stabbed.