Monthly Archives: April 2014

Sound Observation #12
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Au Bon Pain 6 pm April 29, 2014

Sounds farthest away:

  • Rain pounding on the pavement and the roof
  • Door opening to the outside
  • Katy Perry on the radio

Sounds at medium range:

  • Sandwich ladies chatting.
  • Someone being rung up at the register
  • Someone getting ice from the fountain drink machine

Sounds at close range

  • Couple arguing next to me
  • Someone pushing past me to get to the soup

General sound level:

The room is a comfortable volume. Not as loud as it usually is, and not as crowded so it is much more tolerable than usual.

One word description:

Impatient

Three important sounds:

  • Music
  • Sandwich ladies
  • Couple arguing

Journal Entry Numero 10!
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1. Thursday, 4/24/14, 1:36A Penn Station, aboard a LIRR train

2. Identify the sounds farthest from you:

> Footsteps
> LIRR Announcer
> Shouting drunk kids

3. Identify the sounds at medium range from you:

> Train on adjacent platform leaves the station
> Police Officers getting information from a girl who dropped her phone on the tracks
> Someone loudly relieving themselves in the train bathroom cabin

4. Identify the sounds closest to you:

> A man sits down next to me
> My own breathing

5. Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity:

The general sound level seems strained. Sound is tough to make at this time of night, and yet people fight against the difficulty. The amount of activity is high in concentrated areas, but overall is medium-low.

6. Assign one word to describe the sound environment

Stiff

7. Select three sounds essential to the environment:

> Footsteps
> Drunk People
> LIRR Announcer

Field Recording #10 Rainy Afternoon
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Location: 4/15/2014, Vander Poel, 12:45 PM

Sounds Featured:  My Pandora station playing, the wind through my open window, the dull roar of the rain outside, the pages of the playbills I have on my walls blowing, the slap of me turning my clean PJ shirt outside in and folding it and my dresser drawers.

Field Recording #10
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Location: Breslin Hall

Sounds Heard: You can hear the sounds of my professor as she’s teaching something about legal studies and the sound of my neighbor shuffling through her notes to try to find the answer. You can hear the clicking of the keyboard as I’m messing around on my computer.

Sound Journal #11
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1- Thursday, April 24, 2014, 3:15pm, Breslin Hall

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.

Furthest away from me, you can hear my professor lecturing about the legal studies in business and asking the class questions pertaining to the lesson we’re learning.

3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.

At medium range from me, you can hear my neighbor flip through her notes as she looks for the answer to the question my teacher has just posed.

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).

Closest to me, you can hear the sounds of my clicking away on my keyboard as I’m pretending to take notes in class.

5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.

The sound level in the classroom is rather quiet as everyone’s paying attention and trying to grasp exactly what the teacher is trying to explain.

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

Bored

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.

Three sounds that are essential to this sound environment are the sounds of my professors voice in the background as she’s teaching class, the sound of my neighbor flipping through her notes and the sound of me messing around on my computer.

 

Sound Journal #11
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1. Hallway of my house, 10:30 pm, 4.24.14

2. Sounds furthest from me:

  • Water shooting out of the shower and hitting the tub floor
  • The bell on my cat’s collar going wind as he jumps around
  • Cars passing by

3. Sounds at a medium range from me:

  • The ice machine releasing cubes
  • The light above me making a squeaking sound
  • Hum of the computer

4. Sounds closest to me:

  • Buttons being pressed on the remote
  • My breathing
  • Typing on my keyboard

5. The level of sound activity and general sound level:

Sound level is low but feels rather high due to my headache. Activity is minimal.

6. Word to describe sound environment:

Slow

7. Three sounds that complete sound environment:

  • The shower
  • The typing on my computer
  • The squeaking of the light