Monthly Archives: May 2012
Field Recording #11
Journal Entry #13
1. Phoenix house Chinese restaurant 5/2/12 8:30 pm
2. The sounds farthest away from me are food sizzling in a pan and a person chopping food.
3. The sounds at a medium range are the cash register opening and people ordering food and talking about the menu.
4. The sounds closest to me are the children of the owners speaking Chinese and running around.
5. The general sound level is loud.
6. I would describe the sound environment as “energetic”.
7. Three sounds essential to the sound environment are the food cooking, people ordering food, and the people talking in Chinese. The restaurant is like its own little world.
Journal Entry #13
Date: May 3, 2012
Time: 2:00 am
Location: Undergrad Cabaret, Spiegel Theater
Farthest Noises: The doors opening and closing, thunder, rain
Medium Noises: Bionca crying, people laughing, people wispering
Closes Noises: Chris talking on stage
General sound: A contained roar
Envionrment: Drunk and emotional
3 Noises: Chris talking, Bionca crying, people wispering
Journal Entry #12
Date: April 26, 2012
Time: 4:45pm
Location: Hallway of the music department in the NAB
Farthest Noises: A copy machine, a phone ringing, people talking
Medium Noises: Piano, someone singing, people laughing
Closes Noises: My sheet music shuffling, my breathing
General Sounds: Quiet
Environment: Busy
3 Noises: Piano, someone singing, the copy machine
Sound Journal 13
1- 2012-05-02 at 7:41 PM
Sitting backstage at Measure For Measure rehearsal during Blackbird’s run
– Sit, close eyes and allow the sounds around you to envelope you, listen for all of the sound in your environment.
2- Lines, yelling on stage, heard both from the door as well as the intercom in the dressing rooms
3- Low conversations in the dressing room, Jesse doing his warmups nearby.
4- Air Conditioning unit above me, girl next to me turning pages as she reads
5- It’s all backstage voices. slight nervousness for the dress rehearsal, but certainly not the nervousness of a performance. The noise from the stage ranges with the emotion of the scene.
6- Backstage
7- Hushed whispers, yelling from stage, pages turning next to me.
Journal Entry #12
1- May 1st -4:30-Gym
2- Music playing, sound of machine
3-people talking, the weights getting put down
4- My ipod playing, my breathing
5- My music is pounding, noisy environment
6- Healthy
7- My music, my breathing, machines
Journal Entry #11
1- 4/25 -9pm-Wing Night
2- Music playing, people talking/singing along
3- People at the table next to us, sound of people drinking/eating
4- MaryKate, Chloe, Katie talking, sound of forks on plates, glasses clinking
5- Loud, constant
6- festive
7- Music, people talking, glasses clinking
Journal Entry #10
1- 4/21-Noon -Cosco
2- Sound of cash register, check out person talking
3- People talking around me
4- Bionca talking, sound of her unzipping purse, coins
5- Hectic, busy, constant sound
6- busy
7- people talking, cash register, coins
Journal Entry #9
1- 4/19-1 am-Our hallway
2- Bass from the guys down the hall, yelling from the girls visiting them
3- Chloe and MaryKate talking
4-The ticking of my clock, typing on my computer
5- Loud, and constant
6- Disruptive
7- The bass, the voices, my clock