Drew trying to remember how to play guitar.
Daily Archives: February 21, 2014
Field Recording 2
Someone’s cell phone goes off in class.
Field recording 1
One of my roommates and I playing N64.
Field Recording #3
Friday, February 21, 2014. 8:47 AM, My kitchen.
Sounds Heard: A crinkled reciept being smoothed out, my mother talking, my shuffled footsteps, the ice machine making and dropping ice, water being poured, ripping of a paper towel, the toaster clicking and it’s timer going off.
Sound journal #4
1. Date, time, and location
Thursday February 20th, student center waiting in line for food.
2. Sounds heard farthest away
Peoples conversations, foot steps, chairs dragging against the floor.
3. sounds at a medium distance
Music from the radio, people talking, sound of the grill cooking food.
4. Sounds heard closest.
Woman talking to me, the girls having a conversation next to me, the jingling of my keys.
5. General sound level
Loud, but mundane. There is a hustle and bustle but nothing exciting. These are normal sounds and the loudness is at a constant.
6. Word to describe the sound environment.
Hungry
7. Three essential sounds
Foot steps, people talking, the sound of the grill.
Field Recording #3
Thursday, February 20th, 2014, 9:30 pm. Walking down the hallway on my floor at night.
Sounds Heard: Rap music, and a conversation between two men.
Sound Journal Numero Four (Game Time in the Dorm)
1- DATE-TIME-LOCATION of the sound environment
>2.21.2014
>1:40 A.M.
>Nassau Room 607A
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
>The shower running in the background. The water sputters every 8-10 seconds. There’s a nice mixture of the soft tapping of the individual droplets and the sloshing splashes of the water that hits the body and falls to the ground.
>My roommate singing that one Avicii song about brothers or something.
>That one Avicii song about brothers or something is playing very very softly, probably because he doesn’t wanna wake the neighbors.
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
>The soft blip-blips of my PC as I sit across the room from it, ignoring the continuous notifications on my game.
>The “whirr” of my PC’s fan, desperately trying to cool a machine that’s put in way too many hours a day.
>The news that’s on in the next room over, something about the olympics.
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
>My two suitemates playing a very intense online game, the sounds are a mixture of grunts, shouts, and the occasional profane exclamations of how “done they are with this motherf**kin’ game.”
>The crashes, explosions, slicing, clashing of metal, lion-like roars, and the occasional “An ally has been slain” from the games they are playing.
>My laptop making ‘boo-dwee’ tones as facebook notifications roll in in the group chat.
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
>The sound level is on the very uncomfortable border between noisy and loud.
>The amount of activity is relatively high, or seemingly so with all the noise coming from the computers.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
>Intense.
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.
>The noises from the game.
>My suitemates shouting.
>The notifications from my facebook.
Field Recording #3
– Monday, Feb,17 12pm, Roosevelt Field Mall/Hofstra University
-Riding an empty bus to and from the mall. There was no one talking on this bus, only the sound of the engine.
Journal #4
1 – 2/20/14 – 6:30ish pm, Napolini Express
2 – Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
-Music playing through the speakers
-Chatting of Nappo’s customers
3 – Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
-Ringing bell caused by door opening and closing. -Lauren telling a story about Canada -Marissa laughing at this story
4 – Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
– Jackie tapping her fingers
– The sound of my chewing pizza
5 – Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
– The environment has the sound of any typical restaurant. It is buzzing with various people’s conversations, and the hum of the machines making pizza.
6 – Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
– Humming
7 – Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
-Music playing
– Lauren talking
-Bell on the door
Field Recording #3: Doug Practicing Guitar
Date/Time/Location: 2-20-2014/11:27 PM/ Doug’s room in New Hyde Park
Sounds heard: First, you can hear Doug getting up from his chair and the way it pops back up (like computer chairs do). You can sort of make out him walking across his room, and you can definitely hear him picking up his guitar. He plays, and my planner sliding on the carpet and a few clicks and keys on my computer can be heard.