Daily Archives: March 15, 2012
Journal Entry #7
1. 3/14/12, 11:00AM, Quad in front of Lowe.
2. Students sitting outside of Bits and Bytes enjoying the sun, a girl squealing, a bike passing.
3. Babies going by in a wagon, the sound of the wagon wheels, students conversing on the stoop of Lowe.
4. The conversation of the people I am sitting with, my pencil scratching my paper, the clicking of my pencil for new lead, music playing from someone’s phone.
5. There is much sound activity, but the sound level is being dissipated into the open.
6. Bright.
7. The students buzzing in front of Bits and Bytes, The babies and the wagons, and the music playing.
Journal Entry #7
1. 3/14/12 11:15am Common hour, bench near Roosevelt Hall
2. The sounds farthest away from me are people sitting at the tables talking and laughing.
3. The sounds at a medium distance are birds chirping in a tree and a door to the building in front of me being opened and shut.
4. The sounds closest to me are people walking on the sidewalk/ground, you can hear their shoes shuffling. I also hear my phone receive an email and it makes a little ringing noise.
5. The general sound level is somewhat moderate, and the level remains fairly constant.
6. I would describe the sound environment as “lively”.
7. Three sounds essential to the sound environment are the birds chirping, people talking behind me, and the sounds of people walking. They are common sounds for common hour, when people are going to meetings or relaxing before class in the nice weather.
Field Recording #6
Journal Entry #7
1. March 15th at 11:20 in studio south of WRHU (I was doing my music slot at Hofstra’s radio station.
2. The sounds farthest from me are people talking and laughing outside the studio.
3. The sound at medium range to me is the studio door shutting and someone is writing on the dry erase board outside the studio door. The marker was very squeaky.
4. The sounds closest to me are my tracker asking me a question and the song playing in the background which was “The Space Between” by the Dave Matthews Band. You can also hear clicking on the computer in the background as I am moving the next song into the selector program on the computer.
5. It is pretty calm in the studio and quite relaxing. We are playing what I consider to be good music and my tracker and I are having a good time.
6. mellow
7. The sounds that are essential to the environment are obviously the music playing in the background since it is a radio station, my tracker asking me a question about what is going on, and the clicking on the computer.
Field Recording #6
3/15/12 8:45 pm Gas station
You can hear the voice and echo of a woman talking on the screens where the gas pumps are throughout the recording. Cars whoosh by in front of me and the sounds get louder as they come closer. At the end you hear the car door being opened and there are a few beeping noises signaling that the door is open.
Journal Entry #7
Date: March 15, 2012
Time: 7:45pm
Location: Target
Farthest sounds: Footsteps, hangers clanking, squeeky cart wheels
Medium Sounds: People talking, kids screaming, the cash registers beeping
Closest Sounds: Avery talking, my cellphone ringing, my breating
General Sounds: hushed roar
Environment: laid back
3 sounds: Avery talking, kids screaming, the cash register beeping
Journal Entry #6
1- 3/15/12 – 9:29 PM – 8th floor of Axinn Library
2- The elevator, cars outside
3- People typing, coughing, occasionally whispering, papers rustling, bags unzipping
4- The air vent, my typing, my watch ticking
5- Very low
6- Studious
7- My typing, the air vent, papers rustling
Field Recording 6
:00-:35 Philip Glass
:07 Duck my life <http://www.duckmylife.com/>
:14: Beja standing up
:16 Duck my life
:20 Beja running into a chair
:21 Duck my life
:23 Beja walking, dragging his feet
:30 Geena tapping the table
:31 Duck my life
:32 Duck my life
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