March 5 2018
sounds heard: me waiting for a long time for my laundry to be ready.
Monthly Archives: March 2018
Journal 6
1)Date: March 5, 2018,
Location: my den at home, West Hempstead,
Time 3:44pm
2)Farthest Sounds: my mother watching television, my aunt doing laundry, my cat playing with a penny.
3) Medium Sounds: my brother cooking, trees blowing in the wind, a car alarm.
4) Closest Sounds: my aunts dog barking, my father eating very crunchy chips, my cousin playing with a soccer ball inside the house.
5) General Sound Level: High
General Sound Intensity: High
6) One word description: Annoying
7) Three essential sounds: Dog barking, cousin playing soccer, and car alarm.
D Train going Uptown
Location and Date: D train to Penn Station, 3/3/18, 9:25pm
Sounds Heard: Train running, screeching of the wheels on metal, people talking, conductor speaking overhead, man sniffling next to me
The Copper Onion
The Cooper Union Green Room, 3/3/18, 4:08 pm
Farthest: My friend talking to the security guard about getting the key to the lighting room
Medium: Water running in a pipe above me, air vent
Closest: My boots squeaking, piano, chair creaking
Level: Quiet-Medium
Description: Relaxing
Important sounds: Piano, water running, chair creaking, talking to the security guard
Field Recording
3/1 Adam’s Playhouse- Two Gentleman Curtain Call from Backstage
Cheering, clapping, indistinct talk from run crew
Field Recording 4
2/24/2018 On the LIRR coming back from Escape to Margaritaville with my Parents
mysterious clicking noise, LIRR announcement, Traveling noise, the wind
Journal 5
1- Mineola Train Station 3/1/2018 5:27pm
2-the rail road crossing signs up ahead coming dow, the wind, cars all honking and fighting to park to make the train
3-the girl scouts across the platform all shouting to buy cookies and giggling, the announcement made by the LIRR
4-my heart beat after running down the stairs because i thought i was late, the lady next to me asking the time to her husband, my phone ringing in my hand
5-mediumly busy – while there isn’t a lot of noise there is still a lot of implied action, everyone waiting for the train
6- Waiting
7- the railroad crossings coming down, my heart beat, and the announcement by the LIRR
Field Recording #5 – Venting
- Recorded in my bedroom
- Literally just my voice as I vent about this weekly recording
Journal Entry #5 – Shower
- Date: 3/1/18, Time: about 10pm, Location: my shower
- Sounds farthest: slight hissing of steam, pulling at shower curtains, slight echo
- Sounds at medium range: water cascading down tub, squeezing of shampoo bottles
- Sounds closest: (internal thoughts/ slightest ringing of my ears), my own humming
- Level of sound activity: Generally quiet, only gets slightly louder with the echo in the room
- Hazy
- Slight hissing of steam, internal thoughts and the slight echo
Journal 5
Godiva Roosevelt Field Mall, Thursday March 1st at 7:30 PM. (My break time)
Closest: I hear the ice cream machine buzzing right behind me. Then I hear one of my coworkers take a woman’s order for a hot chocolate, his footsteps move across the floor to the hot chocolate station and I hear him scoop the ingredients, poor the hot water, and turn the blender on.
Medium: I hear customers enter the store and my manager greets them with “Welcome to Godiva”. There are multiple conversations going on between customers that I can not understand and many footsteps walking around the store and down the stairs that lead to the stalk room.
Furthest: People’s conversations echo noisily outside the store, some sort of cart (maybe a stroller) is being pushed along the tile to make a ‘thud thud thud’ sound, and the escalator creates white noise in the background.
The general sound level is very high, loud, and fast paced.
1 word: Consumerism
Three sounds: The ice cream machine, ‘welcome to Godiva’, and the echoing conversations represent this environment well.