Monthly Archives: March 2021

Journal Entry #4- Dani Ruiz
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Thursday March 25, 2021 8:05 pm

Location: on the steps of an Airbnb, the location of a senior film shoot

Farthest Sounds: Cars passing on the road nearby, a person flickering a lighter to light a cigarette in the yard, people talking inside the house

Medium Sounds: Crickets chirping, a car pulling into the driveway, car doors opening and closing, the car being locked, people loading bags out of trunks, tree branches moving wildly in the wind

Closest Sounds: The wind blowing loudly, the door opening and closing, people’s footsteps as they enter and exit the location

Sound Description/Level: Medium and hectic. There are a lot of active noises but not overwhelming.

Important Sounds: People’s footsteps, the wind blowing, cars passing by

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Friday, March 26th 3:00

Location: sitting in my car on Hofstra’s Campus, Outside of Breslin 

Farthest Sounds: People speaking to each other as they pass by, people watching videos on their phones as they pass by

Medium Sounds: cars driving by(the tires going over the asphalt), music blasting from cars, squeaky breaks, and horns honking(lol) 

Closest Sounds: the surprisingly strong wind blowing, plants and trees rustling 

Sound Description/Level: Medium. There is a lot of life going on which gives it a busier feeling but it all kind of blends in the background. 

Important Sounds: The tires on the asphalt, people talking and the trees rustling from the wind. 

Journal Entry 4-Juliana Battaglia
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Friday, March 26th 1:30pm

Location: Mount Sinai Hospital emergency room (I’m fine! Just had to get a test)

Farthest Sounds: The beating of heart monitors far off down the halls. Footsteps. The rolling sounds of machines, wheelchairs, and beds.

Medium Sounds: Papers flipping around. Doors opening and closing. The ding of the elevator as it opens and closes.

Closest Sounds: The chatter of the staff and other patients in the waiting room. People settling into chairs. The sound of the intercom paging staff members.

Sound Description/Level: Medium. Hectic. Lots of motion creating noise but nothing overbearingly loud.

Important Sounds: The beating of heart monitors, the rolling sounds of the various equipment and machines, the intercom.

 
 

Journal Entry #4 – Dylan Pojano
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3/26/2021, 6:15, Quarantine housing in Colonial Square (Salem, suite 928)

Sounds farthest away from me: Although confined to one space, I can still enjoy the amazing weather we’re having. As the wind whooshes from outside, and dives through my window. Birds chirping, trees rustling, people walking, and then finally a rusty cart rolls on bye. Completely covered in brown paper bags, food for those imprisoned in quarantine housing.

Sounds at a medium range from me: Paper bags being placed, followed by a knock, signalling that dinner has arrived. Metal doors, opening one by one, to pick up the precarious meal before them. Eager to eat, they rush back inside, as the metal door shuts with a metallic thud.

Sounds closest to me: Other than the keys I punch into my computer, there is not much noise at the center. Occasionally, the A/C unit in the room will loop harmoniously with the winds from outside. The only other predominant sound found at the center is myself, as my stomach growls with its own eager maw.

The general sound level and amount of sound activity: The general sound level is low and the amount of sound activity is sparsely placed throughout the house.

One word description to the “sound environment”: Suspense, the culmination of these subtle sounds can make or break a man’s sanity.

Three sounds which are essential to the sound environment: Rickety rusty carts, metal doors opening, and my stomach growling.

JOURNAL ENTRY #4 – ALEXANDRA
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Friday, March 26th 4:07pm

Location: The front steps of my house 

Farthest Sounds: students talking and walking down the street on the way to campus, cars speeding on Front Street, a distant car horn (someone is MAD)

Medium Sounds: the ice cream truck parked two houses down, people inside my house running up and down the staircase, birds sitting on our fence chirping  

Closest Sounds: the next door neighbors talking in their back yard, the Spanish music playing in our neighbors’ backyard, the slurping sound I make as I throw back a nice glass of strawberry wine, the wind rustling the leaves on our trees in the from yard and plants next to me on the stoop (kinda a papery crunchy like sound) 

Sound Description/Level: Bubbly – there are moments of stillness and quiet, but there is the occasional interruption of a melody or something reacting to their environment. Feels like a nice spring day. I could get used to days like this. 

Important Sounds: the sound of the wind almost feels like it’s playing with my hair, the ice cream truck reminds me that the weather is turning finally and the warmer and sunnier it gets the happier I will be. This is what peace sounds like. 

Journal Entry #4 – Ash Boone
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021 at 2:37pm

Location: The field outside the back of stu

Farthest Sounds: cars driving by the main road, a plane every once in a while, music and talking/laughing from another group sitting outside, the sound of a football being thrown and also dropped

Medium Sounds: a group of girls laughing near us about something probably not that funny, birds chirping, wind picking up here and there, people filming outside, workers standing around doing absolutely nothing and yelling to each other about God knows what

Closest Sounds: my music playing softly while the tequila show blasts, we’re all cracking up at the performance, the sound of a wrapper as some people in the group reach for Girl Scout cookies, talking amongst the group, ice being shaken around in Starbucks drinks, grass being walked over, bags moving

Sound Description / Level: lively and peaceful at once— this day off really felt like summer and it was a very pleasant noisiness — a reminder that things are looking much better and happier this time this year compared to last year

Important Sounds: the tequila show, music and talking from various sources and distances, the wind (which created the summer feel with its physical feel, its sound, and the scents it carried)