Sound Observation #7

1) Friday March 9th, 2012 – 12:30p.m. – Bits & Bytes

2) Furthest away were dozens of high schoolers ordering food, clanking plastic trays, and confused Hofstra students chatting.

3)  At Medium range there was even more chatting and scanners reading barcodes, doors opening and closing.

4) Closest to me were a couple of my friends eating , opening soda bottles and talking about how easy it would be to steal food at this precise moment.

5) The sound level is obnoxiously loud.

6) Disarray.

7) Trays and food being moved around, dozens of conversations, each trying to over empower the last, and scanners beeping over and over again.

 

Journal Entry #7

1- 2012-03-16 1:45 PM
Inside the Liberty study room

2- Footsteps in the boys hall around the corner

3- Hum of vending machine, people were playing foosball very loudly but have now stopped.  TV in the lounge is on but not decipherable from this room.
4- Opera coming from the girl next to me’s headphones, soda next to me bubbling.
5- This sound environnent is strange because it’s full of sounds that are normally louder but aren’t right now, leaving myself feeling distant.  Chelsea (the girl in the room) is asleep, her headphones audible but not blaring loud.  The other sounds are coming from behind a closed door, so they are also barely there.
6- muffled.
7- Opera on the headphones, indecipherable TV, rattle of vending machines.