Daily Archives: April 19, 2013
Field Recording 9
Journal Entry 11
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
Field Recording #10
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.
Sound Journal #11
1: Monday, April 15, 2013, 5:11 pm, Social Sports Kitchen
2: Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
The large, wooden front door to the restaurant is propped open, so as business men and women trickle in through the swishing, inner set of glass doors and make a beeline for happy hour at the bar, I can hear the violent swiping sound of cars whipping down the turnpike at illegal speeds.
3: Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
The bay of televisions hanging from the ceiling is playing multiple news stations. On a normal day, the manager Michelle sets things up to have the 30+ televisions to play coverage of multiple sports games and will play the audio to the most popular one or put popular music over everything. Today Michelle is playing the audio to the news, but somehow the audio to multiple televisions is playing simultaneously. This creates a strange, movie montage effect of many newscasters grimly reading the same sharply enunciated words over and over, echoing each other’s “Boston Marathon,” “terror,” “bombing occurred,” etc, as the tally of the injured climbs from 40+ to 80+ to 183.
4: Identify and list the sounds closest to you (– you can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
The guests at the bar in front of me eat in silence, eyes glued to the screens. Nothing emphasizes silence more than the sound of a dozen people setting down glasses and bottles on a lacquered, wooden bar, scraping forks and knives against porcelain and not saying a word to one another. The only people speaking consistently are a woman under TV 8 who keeps saying slowly to herself with sincere despair, “Oh my God, and my coworker, who alternately queries, “You need a refill, buddy?” and makes an unfathomably distasteful joke about amputees.
5: Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
The televisions are loud, but the actual level of activity and the energy of this activity are very, very low and somber.
6: Assign a one-word description to the “sound environment”.
“Sober”
7: Select and list 3 sounds that 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 cars outside don’t play much of a part in the aural atmosphere, nor do my coworker’s inane comments. The abnormally slow pace of the dish-and-silverware clattering and the accompanying reticence, coupled with the intense choral effect of the televisions on blast and the punctuation of the woman’s upset “oh my gods” are the most necessary for setting the sonic tone of the day.
Field Recording 10
Identify the location:
History 107, Breslin 216
Identify the sounds:
Well, because this class is Medieval Europe, my professor (Doubleday) likes to play medieval music while we work on group projects. So you can hear him speak about the project, and then you can hear the music come in. You can hear someone discussing what she wants to do, a page turn, miscellaneous background noise, someone coughing, and more people in the class discuss the project. After the professor stops speaking, you can hear more people start to discuss. I decided to record this because I always find that the music he plays is fun, and creates a nice atmosphere for the discussions among groups. I also like his accent and the fact that there is a lot going in on this clip, but you can still focus in and hear him speak, or the music, or the girl next to me speaking, or the background noises; whichever you choose to focus on can be heard clearly and distinctly despite all the other noises simultaneously going on.
Field Recording 10
Journal Entry 11
1- 4/18/13 2:00 A.M. My Room
2- very light talking
3- Tv on
4- Vibrations in the wall next to me, my breathing
5- Low but loud enough to keep me awake
6- Obnoxious
7- TV, Bass Vibrations, Breathing
It was weird, I had earplugs in but some specific frequency sounds could get through
Field Recording #10
Journal Entry #11
1) 4/19/13, 3:41am, Conference Room
2) The wind outside, Noah coughing in the studio.
3) The hum of the radiator, the buzz of silence.
4) My own breathing, my fingers typing.
5) The sound level and activity are very low.
6) Tranquil
7) The buzz of the silence, the very slight wind outside, my own breathing.