On the 23rd, my friends and I went bowling at AMR Meadow Brook Lanes, so this is a sound recording of part of the night.
In the clip, you can hear some pop song playing, people talking and laughing, pins being knocked over, bowling balls rolling, and my friend Brian swearing to mess the sound clip up.
1- 2/26/13 – 8:08 P.M. – 4th Floor study room in the library
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you. – The rumble of cars, car acceleration, perhaps wind, and airplanes overhead.
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you. – Wind right outside the building, some sort of hum running through the building (perhaps it’s the electric lines? Or maybe the water pipes?), and the hum of the radiator.
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant). – People (me and Graham) shifting in chairs, papers and folders sliding around on a table, my keyboard keys clicking, the ticka-tap of a pen writing on a paper on a hard surface, my breathing, Graham’s breathing, Graham’s keyboard keys, the clatter of Graham tossing the pen down, the creak of my bones as I stretch my neck and back.
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity. – The sound level is very soft, but it’s often punctuated by surprise sounds that deafen, like Graham throwing the pen down. Usually these sounds wouldn’t startle me, but in this room they do.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”. – Focused
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. – Pen scratching paper, pen being tossed down, and a combination of the wind and car sounds.
Identify the location of the clip – This recording was taken in the studio one night while working on a design project for 179.
Identify the sounds heard in the clip – There is one principal noise that is found in this sound recording, the noise of my watercolor paper wiggling around as I shake it. I discovered the noise as I was cutting out a sheet 300lb paper for my set rendering. I was carrying the sheet back to my desk and kind of shook the paper in my hand and discovered that as the paper bent back and forth it made this very unique and intriguing sound. If you listen to the entire clip you can hear my shaking the cut out piece for a while then set it down and then grab the larger, scrap sheet and begin to do the same thing to see if there was any difference in noise; it was only slightly lower and deeper sounding.
