1. April 25, 4:00 pm, the quad outside Emily Lowe
2. Wheels on a bag rolling across the sidewalk, traffic from the turnpike
3. Keys jangling, people talking, playhouse doors opening and closing
4. Footsteps on grass, people talking and laughing, wind in the tree branches
5. High energy. Loud and excited, but also oddly soothing and comforting. Not so loud as to be unpleasant.
6. Fun.
7. Car traffic, talking, laughter
1. Sun. 4/21 Dance show tech rehearsal around 11:45 from stage left
2. Laughter, muffled voices, someone coughing, misc. clanking from the woodshop, yelling from the house
3. Curtain being closed, footsteps, a phone vibrating on the table, shop door closing, scrim coming down, music starting and stopping, keys jingling
4. My friends headphones, door opening and closing, friends clothes rustling
5. lots of different sounds but low volume
6. Focused
7. Footsteps, Muffled voices, Music
Identify the location of the clip – Design Studio
Identify the sounds heard in the clip – In this clip you can hear the initial sound of Rachel pulling out a lysol wipe from the yellow container. This is heard with a tap open of the lid and then short jerks and pulls of the wipe until it comes free from the container. From here one can hear the sound of her scrubbing down her desk and pulling up different pieces of gesso and paint from making her last color model. You can hear a swooshing noise as she cleans the desk and then a squeaking and more aggressive pattern as she works harder to get spots off of her desk.
1- 4/20/13 – 11:13 A.M. – Conference room
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you. – Furthest from me I can hear the sounds of a drumline practicing for a performance. The drums appeared to be a part of a larger band that was getting ready to perform in the stadium. The sound of the drums rattled across the campus and as I sat working on my homework I could distinctly hear each tap of the snare drum at a volume that I could not block out of my head as I worked on my paper. All three windows in the room were closed at the time and the sound of the band was pretty much impossible to hear. The sound of the snare drums were not blaring but had a clean and crisp slap that echoed into the space I was working in.
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you. – At a medium range from me I can hear a man just outside of Lowe. He is standing between Lowe and Memorial on the phone with someone that he is conducting business with. Again, all the windows are closed in the room but I can distinctly hear every word this man is saying as well as the clear diction from the man he is speaking to on the other end of the phone. It is interesting as to how this tone of the other man’s voice was able to pierce through the windows so cleanly that I could clearly understand everything the man was saying.
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant). – Closest to me I can hear the sound of Phil walking to and from the bathroom as he slams his feet into the ground walking back and forth. I can always tell who is walking in the hallway simply based upon the rhythm and noise they make while walking. I know that this noise was Phil as each step had a soft pounding noise from the rubber soles of his converse.
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity. – There are many noises effecting the space in which I am sitting and they are all coming from different places but none are from within the room I am sitting in. Despite the fact that each noise is having to travel through another medium to reach me in the conference room. They are all very clear and recognizable sounds.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”. – muffle
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try to 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. – Snare Drum, footsteps, voices on phone
1. 4/19 – 8:30 ish PM – Adams Playhouse
2. Someone opening the stage door, Rachel laughing in the back of the theater
3. The dancers “tapping” (they were Oxfords, not tap shoes though) – I could clearly hear the tapping from the stage, but I could also hear the tapping just as clear coming from behind me. It was a very WEIRD effect.
4. Rebecca and Jenna chatting beside me
5. The sound level was fairly high, as those dancers can tap pretty loud! The amount of sound activity was also pretty high, as there were a lot of dancers up there in addition to the other random sounds.
6. Insanity
7. The tapping, talking, laughing
1. End of unispan, by library between classes
2. sound from the outside as the door opens, voices, a skateboard going by outside, footsteps
3. laughter, voices go by, lively conversations, footsteps, bags bouncing
4. peoples clothing rustling, myself, the music in someones big headphones
5. High volume and lots of activity
6. Lively
7. conversation/voies, footsteps, doors opening and closing
Location: Madison Square Garden Arena — Tuesday, April 16th, 2013, 9:36 pm
Sounds Heard: My boyfriend and I went to see Muse at Madison Square Garden, and I was so surprised by the quality of the sound. The acoustics in this huge arena are amazing, and the show’s audio was set up perfectly to feel so powerful and throbbing and impactful, but to not hurt your ears at all, even as close to the stage as we were. I recorded a snippet from one of my favorite songs, “Hysteria” — I was also very impressed by how good the band sounds live, especially with Matt Bellamy’s fluid vocals. Occasional elated screaming can also be heard throughout the song.
