Daily Archives: January 30, 2014

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1. 1/30/14, 9:58 pm, Dorm Room

2. Identify sounds farthest from you:

  • Cars passing by outside
  • Music coming from the room above mine

3. Identify sounds coming from medium range:

  • Swords Clashing from the common room where my roommate is playing Skyrim
  • Music from my suite-mates room coming through the wall next to me

4. Identify sounds closest to you:

  • The humming of the heater next to my bed
  • The humming coming from my laptop fan
  • The sound of my bed squeaking as I shake my foot

5. General sound level and activity:

The sound level is very calm and peaceful.  There is definitely a lot of activity but nothing is too loud and overtaking other sounds.  There is a balance.

6. One word to describe the sound environment: Calm

7. Three essential sounds from the environment:

  • The swords from Skyrim
  • The humming of the heater
  • The music from my suite-mates room

Sound Journal Entry 1
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1- DATE-TIME-LOCATION of the sound environment
Thursday, January 30th, 2014. 8:44 P.M. EST. 959 Braxton St Uniondale, NY

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
• A car engine starting; the car suubsequentially driving away
• The whimper of a window left ajar against wind gusts
• The echo of the television hitting the kitchen wall

3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
• An oven, metal creaking as it heats up
• Static bulb hum (from a Television)
• Inhalations & Exhalations of a sleeping Gary Newman

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
• The scratch of my hair against a polyester chairback
• Type-type-typing of a MacBook Pro
• Thumbpads striking the surface of the tablet I’m writing this on
• Blinking

5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
It is quiet. There is noise, but the air is thick with introspection. The television is on low, unwatched. Background noise.

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

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
• Echo
• Sleeping Gary
• The Howling Wind

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1. 1/30/2013, 2:36 pm, my dorm room.

2. Identify sounds farthest from you: Sound of the cars passing by, rap music down the hall, doors closing.

3. Identify sounds at medium range: Sound of the heater, humidifier, and fridge.

4. Identify sounds closest to you: My bracelets shaking against each other, the typing noise on my iPad, and the noise of my fingers against the iPad screen.

5. General sound level and activity: Mostly soft low sound level except for the the music which is loud. The activity is low but constant. The noises are all continuous but rather mundane and common noises except for the music.

6. One word to describe the sound environment: Disruption.

7. Three essential sounds to the environment: The music, humming of the heater, and cars going by.

 

Sound Journal #1
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1- DATE-TIME-LOCATION of the sound environment
Thursday, January 30th, 2014. 2:36 p.m. EST. Room 107 Emily Lowe Hall, AKA “The Psibrary”

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
>The whirring of a distant machine, possibly something in relation to the heating.
>Footsteps from way upstairs, they’re more of a shuffle than a step.
>A professor speaking. The noise is way too muffled to even determine the gender.

3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
>There’s a door that keeps slamming, the slam consists of two very rapid clicks, one for the collision of the door and the other for the locking mechanism.
>Voices in the next room over, students. The voices are orderly, not one speaks over the other.
>A stapler has been being used consistently for almost two minutes at this point. Followed by the occasional ‘Ah, shit’ from Angela.

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
>The noises nearest myself are very quiet.
>The clock ticks in a manner that makes you feel like it’s working too hard. The sound of a marker on an easel from the updated Act Facts of the day.
>Another clock is ticking, and it’s slightly out of sync with the other.
>A very calm tapping, something just short of a water droplet on the ceiling.

5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
The sound level is a few steps above eerily silent. The voices at medium range allow for a relaxing background that isn’t all that unnerving.
The activity can be described as dispersed, free, very thinned out, and passing.

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

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
>Out of sync clocks
>Footsteps
>The orderly voices of students