Location: Back of Student Center, during a “Coffee House” style performance series — February 7, 2012, 8:29 pm
Sounds Heard: Aaron playing the acoustic guitar and singing (both amplified), the chatter of students in the dining hall, applause, whooping, and his friend Arianna screaming “Okay, Aaron, I see you!” (to which he replies, “I also see you”), and laughter.
1- DATE-TIME-LOCATION- 2/7/13 2 PM, at the house of the child I nanny
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.- construction on the house down the street, several cars driving past the house
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you- dog softly snoring on the other side of the room, dishwasher running in the kitchen
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you- white noise machine and lullaby playlist coming through on the baby monitor next to me, the crinkling of paper as I flip the page of the book I’m reading
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
Everything is very quiet as any sudden loud noises would wake the baby.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
Subdued
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.- the sounds from the baby monitor, the dog snoring, and the dishwasher running
1- 2/6/13-2:12AM-Republic Hall Room 208
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
Elevator door opening. Music down the hallway. A sharp, loud “NOOOO!” and the sound of someone throwing something on the ground. Laughter (All male?).
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
Bathroom door slamming shut. Toilet flushing. Sink turning on and off. Bathroom door shut again. Our room’s HVAC unit humming.
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
Roommate’s video game (XCOM: Enemy Unknown), including sound of “pew-pew”s, what sound like military officials saying military things, suspenseful music, bagpipes, sounds of power tools and general construction sounds. My phone vibrating.
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
It’s very loud. Despite the hour of night, the whole floor is abuzz and creating a never ending high volume environment.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
“Battle”
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try and figure out what sounds make up this environment and which of those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment to stay intact.
The video game being played, the HVAC humming, and the music being played down the hallway
Location: On 4:33PM train from Mineola to Penn Station
Sounds heard: The “ding-dong”s preceding an announcement by the conductor. The announcement by the conductor. The slamming of a train car’s door. The slight hum of the train on the train tracks. Barely audible conversations between people in the background.
1. February 7, 8:57 pm, Vander Poel
2. Voices down the hall, occasional wind outside
3. Hum from refrigerator, roommate watching a basketball game on his laptop
4. Keyboard, slippers moving across the floor, fingers tapping
5. Medium. Not intensely loud, but the sounds are present without having to focus on listening for them.
6. Average
7. Voices down the hall, game from roommate’s laptop, keyboard
1- Date/Time/Location.
2.7.2013/8:24pm/NassauOffice
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
The clicking of the ID card reader, the turnstile, people speaking in the hallway
3- Identify and list the sounds at medium range from you.
A phone ringing, people talking, laughter
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
Typing on a laptop, laughter, people talking
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
Loud. Medium-High.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
Excited
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
People talking, Turnstile, Laughter.
1- 02/04/2013
9:40pm
Mineola Train Station
I am sitting on a bench near a curb under a bridge. Many streets surround me.
2- Sounds farthest away: A clicking noise that sounds like a cricket chirping but clearly is not, must be a far off machine or an alarm that refuses to turn off. A solitary laugh, the slightest hint of conversation which lasts very little.
3- Sounds at medium range: Occasional car slams and honks, random squeaks and sputters from driving. Nothing consistent or constant.
4- Sounds closest to you: Cars whiz by and start off relatively far away but then reach middle range and eventually become the sounds closest to me when they pass behind me.
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity: It would be completely silent if it were not for the cars and alarm. The sound level is hauntingly low and any sound activity only occurs in sporadic spurts. The lack of sound creates a solitary environment that is extremely unsettling. Very much like what I would imagine the sound environment to be like in a scary movie before something horrible is going to happen.
6- One word description to the “sound environment”: Eerie.
7- 3 sounds essential to the sound environment: Clicking alarm, cars whizzing past, the solitary laugh.
