Monthly Archives: March 2013

Journal Entry #6
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1) 3/7/13, 12:43pm, Cabaret in the Spiegel Theater

2) Max Baudisch hitting a rehearsal cube, Christian Titus’s footsteps and manic yelling

3) Cackles and hyperventilating from the audience, chairs squeaking, snaps, general hubbub of many people all living/breathing in a small room (the sound of small movements and breaths).

4) My own laugh, Tanner’s loud laugh, Geena’s giggling.

5) The sound level is medium high: loud, but not overwhelming. The amount of sound activity is very high.

6) Ridiculous

7) Max, Christian, and Tanner’s overpowering laugh.

Journal 6
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1- 3/4/13, 2:30 PM, Alliance Hall Lobby

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you: The elevator ding as it arrives on the floor, wind blowing outside the windows, cars driving by in the distance

3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you: The clacking of the turnstile as people are swiping in to the building, someone asking the RSR to swipe them in, music bleeding through the person sitting on the other side of the room’s headphones
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you: humming of the water fountain, the soft splashing as I fill my water bottle
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity: It’s a moderate amount of sound, none of the sounds are terribly overpowering or invasive
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”: humdrum
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment: The elevator ding, the turnstile, and the hum of the water fountain

Field Recording 5
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Listen to

 

Subway S Train waiting area at 42nd St
A man is playing the Pan Flute on the other side of the area, while people mull around, conversing. In the background, you can hear trains entering/leaving the station, echoing on the tracks. At the end of the clip, an automated voice announces the next train to Grand Central will arrive on track 1 in two minutes.

 

Field Recording #5
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Listen to

 

Identify the location of the clip – This recording is taken from the floor just inside the door to my dorm room with the microphone facing under the door toward the staircase and hallway.

Identify the sounds heard in the clip – What is recreated in this recording is a series of sounds I have developed quite an awareness for in the last few months. This is the sound that I hear through my door whenever my room-mate comes home. It always baffles me that I can pick up of the tiny differences in his style of walking that I always know if it is him coming down the hallway as opposed to any of my multitude of neighbors. In this sound clip you initially can hear me open the door and leave my room so that I can recreate this moment. Next you can faintly hear me grab the door knob and swing the door open from the stair well there is a very subtle and extremely high frequency noise of the door creaking. I pull the door open and turn down the hallway toward my room. I was careful in the recording to not pick my feet up when I walked as that is generally what I hear when my roommate is coming down the hall. Next thing you can hear is me grabbing my lanyard with keys and pushing it into the key slot of my door and missing a few times. Right after this you can hear the key go into the hole and then the door swing open and the door knob twists back into place and the door shuts.

 

Journal #6
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1- 3/3/13 – 7:18 – Lobby of the Spiegel Theater
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you. –  From where I was sitting, the sounds that were furthest from me were the noises of the actors shuffling rehearsal cubes around on stage. There was a very soft and faint sliding noise of the felt pads against the semi-gloss stage floor. As each block hit one of the many imperfections of the stage it would begin to snag and I could hear the small little taps of the wooden blocks against the stage floor. This noise was much deeper and came across as more of a rumble and roll as each piece moved around on stage.  
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you. – At a medium range I could hear the noises of one of the audience members on the phone with their relatives trying to explain how to get to the university. I could hear the very faint sound of their voice and could understand only about every other word as they explained how to exit from the turnpike and turn onto California Blvd. 
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant). – At the closest range to me, and the one and only noise I could hear from the room I was physically occupying was the hum of my computer overheating as it ran vectorworks and Iphoto all at the same time. The actual noise was the very high-pitched hum of my fan as it spun faster and faster to cool down the machine, the noise was only slightly muted as my computer was resting on my lap and sending the air between the gap in my legs. 
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity. – Each sound that I could hear at this time was a noise that was muted  or muffled by another object around me whether it be a door or my jeans. Each and every sound was dampened yet I could clearly pick out an interesting touch and unique quality to each noise even though none of these noises were reaching my ears “unharmed” 
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”. –  Suppressed
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. – Thumping of the blocks, hum of the fan, voice from outside

Journal Entry 5
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1- 2/25/13 12 PM, Netherlands Dining Hall

2- Other students walking and talking on the way to and from their dorm through the main entrance of the hall.

3- People ordering food behind my table at the inner part of the cafe, Fries sizzling as they are deep fried at the Nathan’s there, two of the workers sitting behind the counter talking in Spanish while they have no customers, a commercial jingle comes from the TVs they have mounted in the center.
4- My friends are all talking at my table, some are chewing, others are slurping their drink, one crunches in to an apple.
5- The general sound level is pretty loud. Though the room itself is not too crowded, the room echos, making a moderate amount of sound seem much louder.
6- Congenial
7- Friends Talking, Women speaking Spanish, Commercial jingle coming from the TV