Monthly Archives: April 2013

Journal Entry 11
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1- 4/18, 1pm, dorm room

2- I hear a door thump closed from the down the hall, the window is open and from far away I can hear a bird twittering off and on in the distance

3- The air conditioner hums softly and consistently, my roommate is doing her homework in which she has to listen to a recording in Italian and do a worksheet off of it. I can hear the lesson tape, and hear her mumble to herself on and off.

4- My fingers typing on the keyboard, the shuffling of the papers next to me

5- Both sound level and activity are low

6- Studious

7- the hum of the HVAC, the voice over italian and typing

Journal 11
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1- Date/Time/Location.
4.17.13/12:00pm/My dorm room

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
Someone speaking obnoxiously loudly in the hallway; they must be walking by because I can hear their voice grow louder, and then fade out.  It sounds like they (or someone they were walking with, perhaps) were swinging their keys back and forth, because I could hear a rhythmic jingling.

3- Identify and list the sounds at medium range from you.
One of my suite mates intermittently yelling and laughing extremely loudly at a television show or movie on her television or computer (which I can also hear, though faintly), another suite mate coughing.

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
Jukebox the Ghost playing from my iPod dock, softly.  The steady drip, drip, drip from my heater into the garbage can placed under it as it hums, wheeze-like (I should really get that fixed…), the squeak of my bed as I shift position.

5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
Medium level and activity.  It’s lower in my room, but it’s certainly higher in my suite mate’s room.

6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
Manifold.

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
Rachelle yelling/laughing at her television, Jukebox the Ghost, and the hum of my heater.

Field Recording #10
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Identify the location of the clip – Sitting on the pew outside of the Studio

Identify the sounds heard in the clip – This recording was taken as I sat on the pew folding a paper airplane. I was sitting outside the studio on the phone fiddling with some papers and started to fold it into a paper airplane. I thought the noise was cool so I did my field recording of this very noise. What you hear in the clip is a lot of paper constantly being crinkled and held down onto the hallow wood of the pew. Occasionally you can hear as I crease the paper and and then move it to make the next fold. The actual act of creasing the page is very clean and crisp when listened to in comparison to the ambient noise of my paper moving over the paper. Occasionally you can also hear as my finger squeaks on the paper as I crease each fold. 

Journal #11
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1- 4/17/13 – 7:15 P.M.  – Drama Lounge
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you. – Furthest from me I hear the sounds for the last three or four sorority brothers that are still out playing catch with the football in the last few minutes of sunlight on the quad for the day. They are all standing in a square shape and facing each other diagonally across the quad. I could distinctly hear the noises of the soft leather smacking into their hands as they hurled the ball across the grass to each other. Every so often you could hear a deep shout of their voices at each other and then the thud and tumbling noise as the ball hit the ground if they missed the catch. 
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you. – Medium range from me I can hear the sound of the cast of Carrie belting their music from 110. They are constantly starting and stopping, repeating the same lines of music over and over until they master every note and tone of the music. Every time they ran the music it began with. “He does not know… I will be there tomorrow… all alone…” Every once in a while the noises that would come from their voices would suddenly spike in volume as an actor opened the door to the room and shut it again. 
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 the three people in the lounge conversing and reviewing their monologues before they performed for the faculty. The nerves were running high but almost everyone rehearsing their lines was rehearsing to themselves in a soft whisper to themselves. 
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity. – Furthest and closest to me the sound is  soft while at a medium range the sound is almost overwhelming.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”. – Springtime 
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. – Football, singing, whisper of lines

 

Field Recording 9
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Republic Hall, hallway
My friend was describing the food  at a German restaurant that she went to the day before. I enjoyed the way she emphasized certain words or syllables in order to convey what the food was like. Her voice is naturally smooth but the jolts in her speech make her enthusiasm evident. Unfortunately, I cut the clip off right before she finished her sentence.

 

Journal Entry 10
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1- Wednesday April 10, around 7:30pm (or whenever it began to downpour), intramural fields

2- Girls screaming and shouting to each other, scrambling to the cars; another car drives by humming through the rain

3- Thunder rolls loudly and rain hits the metal face of the scoreboard for the softball field.

4- Rain pours down all around and on me, pitter-pattering, slapping and clapping against the ground; my cleats crunch on the ground

5- The sound activity is low, but the sound level is a medium, spiking high with each crack of thunder

6- Calming

7- Rain, footsteps, thunder

 

Journal Entry 10
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1.  My Dorm room, 5pm Thursday

2. a car horn, the wind blowing, faint voices,  what sound like an airplane flying by far away

3. the shower in the bathroom across the hall, furniture moving on the floor above me, the elevator dinging and doors opening and closing, wing blowing

4. my refrigerator humming, the heater, myself breathing

5. Low volume but lots of activity

6. Enclosed

7. the refrigerator, doors closing, the elevator

Sound Journal 10
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1- 4/11/13 11:45 PM, Alliance Hall

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you: birds chirping outside the open window, cars driving by

3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you: People running through the hallway, someone talking loudly on the phone outside my door, someone in the hallway laughing so hard they are practically cackling
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you: my fan whirring on high, sleep songs lightly playing on myipod
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity- Far too high for 11:45 at night
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”. Annoying
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment: Person talking on phone, person cackling, birds chirping

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Location: 13th Floor Lounge of Enterprise Dormitory Hall — April 11th, 2013, 10:15 pm

Sounds Heard:  This is a longer clip than usual, but I wanted to record the entire warm-up.  My improv troupe is in tech week for a show, and we have late night rehearsals at which we first warm up by taking turns sharing a story while leading a group stretch.  I made the mistake of asking my troupe if I could record them beforehand, so they can at first be heard making jokes about it, while the troupe leader Will tries to rein in their focus.  We then take turns telling stories.  At various points (usually at the start of a new stretch), moaning and groaning can be heard when the story-telling troupe member attempts a particularly difficult stretch.  You can also hear from time to time (like during Annie’s cantaloupe story) the volume of the storyteller’s voice increasing as he or she moves to the floor and closer to my phone for a stretch.