Location: 4/25/2014, 1:40A, on a LIRR car

Sounds Featured: People’s footsteps, people conversing with officer

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