Journal Entry 2- Kevin O’Keefe

2/7/2019; 1:00 A.M.; Bedroom

Farthest Sounds: Distant cars, sirens, planes

Medium sounds: The wind, the window blind blowing in the wind and hitting the window

Closest sounds: Snoring, door creaking due to wind passing through room, radiator clanging.

General sound level: quiet to a point that rides the line of calm and eerie

One word: suspicious

Essential Sounds: sirens, wind, creaking door

Field Recording 1

January 7, 5:54 pm, Stuyvesant Hall
Farthest: cars passing, people talking & laughing, water trickling
Medium: heater buzzing/humming, phone vibration against a table, occasional car horns
Closest: keyboard keys clacking, metal binder opening and closing, sheets rustling
Sound level: low-medium
Productive
Essential sounds: keyboard clacking, cars passing, binder opening and closing

Location: Street outside east entrance to Hofstra University.

Sounds heard: Cars driving, trucks driving, engines running, leaves rustling, metallic clacks, wind

2/7/19, 12:30 PM, Emily Lowe Hallway 1st floor

Sounds Farthest away: Piano playing, voices talking behind closed doors, air blowing from somewhere.

Medium-Range Sounds: Crunching from eating granola, talking from opened doors, footsteps.

Close-Range Sounds: Door to Lowe Hall banging open and closed, people talking in the hallway, a backpack being zipped up.

General sound level is kind of loud, though it usually relies on how many doors are being opened at one time. Fair amount of sound activity.

One-Word Description: Immense.

Essential Sounds: Doors closing, people talking in the hallway, footsteps.

Location: 2/5/19, 7:07pm, Front Street
Farthest sounds: car horns beeping, breeze in the distance, cars driving by/accelerating, sirens
Medium sounds: car engine running, trees rustling, faint voices as people walk by, brakes screeching, car door closing
Closest sounds: keyboard typing, exhaling, music playing
Sound level is high, it’s a busy street so there’s a lot of noise everywhere through the sounds of travel taking place
One word description: active
Three essential sounds: tires on pavement, whoosh of wind as cars drive by, car brakes

1/30/19 at 9 PM; EMT School (15 minute break)
Farthest: Cars, Highway
Medium: The cold wind passing my ears, puffs of a cigarets, doors opening and closing
Close: Conversations of the people around me, foot steps on the wooden walkway, the vending machines
Sound Level: High, a lot of sound activity due to the amount of people outside (20-30)
One word: Populated
Essential sounds: Vending machine, doors opening and closing, foot steps, people conversating