Location: Common Room on my floor
Sounds Heard: typing on a iphone, a send noise, shuffling noises, breathing, static.
Daily Archives: March 6, 2014
Sound Journal #6
1. Adams Playhouse, 7:48pm, Thursday, March 6th, 2014.
2. Many conversations happening over each other, undistinctible words. Footsteps along the aile. People fidgeting in their seats.
3. The conversation of a usher and a guest. People flipping their programs. The girls begins me talking about a guy from a bar.
4. Breathing from the person next to me. Shuffling of feet. People texting on their phone. My jacket making noises as it moves against the seat.
5. The sound activity is high. There is lots of movement and conversations. There is a lot going on and there is an exciting feel through the air.
6. Excitement.
7. Flipping of programs. Shuffling of feet. Conversation between a usher and a guest.
Sound Journal #6
1 – 3/6/14 – 5:30pm – Middle Country Public Library, Centereach
2 – Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
-A library patron’s footsteps as he walks up the stairs loudly.
-The wheels of a cart full of books and DVD’s being pushed toward the elevator.
-The furious clicking of keys on the computer keyboards.
3 – Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
-A kid crying to his mother that he wants to leave.
-The fish tank’s motor up and running smoothly.
-The beeping of the alarm as someone walks past the sensors without checking their item out.
4 – Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
-A Librarian asking, “How may I help you?”
-The conveyor belts moving as I return the videogames I borrowed.
-Librarians helping a patron to find a book she wants.
5 – Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
-There was a lot of activity occurring where I was in the library, as there was a program going on. The library was very busy today, and seemed like it was louder than normal as well.
6 – Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
-Active.
7 – Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
-The conveyor belts operating.
-The sounds of the cart being pushed.
-The motor in the fish tank running.
Field Recording #5
My house
Hollywood Game Night is playing on the TV while I play Kid Icarus Uprising on my 3DS.
Sound Journal # 6 – A Quiet Night at Home…What?
1. ZAT House, 9:21 pm, Thursday, March 6, 2014.
2. Identify the sounds furthest from you: Okay, this is so weird, my house is never this quiet, so despite the fact that I’ve done a sound journal on the everyday noises in my house, I would like to take note of this silence. Right now, the sound furthest from me is the cars as they pass by on Front Street. Now, to give a visual, my room is at the back of the house, furthest from the street, so it’s interesting that I can still hear the very faint sound of cars outside. I also just heard my neighbor’s car door shut. Upstairs, I hear Bonnie, Jenna’s kitten, who is six months old now and has yet to be fixed; she’s in heat. So, naturally, she is meowing up a storm right now, wandering all over the house. This is honestly the loudest sound I hear at the moment. Everything else is still.
3. Identify the sounds at a medium range: With my bedroom door open, I can hear the faint whirring of the refrigerator in the living room and the washing machine at the end of the hall.
4. Identify the sounds closest to you: I guess the cats want to torture me today because as I’m typing this, Bailey, Corinne’s cat, has just jumped onto my bed to lay next to my laptop and watch me type. She is purring with some added pitch. As per usual, my radiator clicks as the heat comes on. There is also a crack in the ceiling, or the floor of the room above me, I guess, which comes standard with any older house that shifts and makes noises.
5. Describe the level of sound activity: Aside from the OBNOXIOUS meowing of Bonnie upstairs — oh, I’m sorry, she’s coming back down here, GREAT — the house is still. The sound activity is very low. Just the radiator and the passing cars and the sound of my typing.
6. A word to describe the sound environment: Still.
7. Three sounds that complete the sound environment:
— The cars passing outside
— Bonnie in heat, meowing nonstop
— The radiator clicking
Field Recording #5 – Cats
So, after several attempts of reaching for my phone over the last week to capture the sound of Jenna’s kitten, Bonnie — who is currently in heat and has yet to be fixed, and who also stops meowing as soon as I grab my phone somehow — this was the best recording I got. It’s so different from a normal meow. It’s deep and desperate and NONSTOP. It’s driving us all crazy, so here you go! Enjoy my nightmare!