Monthly Archives: February 2022

Journal Entry 2- Michelle Pavloff
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Date: February 27, 2022

Location and Time: The Joan and Donald Schaeffer Black Box Theater, 1:50 pm 

Far Sounds: Muffled chatter of audience members sitting farther away from me, the faint pinging of a sound effect from the show, a phone falling out of someone’s pocket and hitting the ground

Medium Sounds: Clanging of seats as people were getting settled, Sigma Capella’s ICCA set playing on a phone a few rows ahead of me, Avery, Ben, and Cindy talking, someone coughing

Close Sounds: Joey speaking to me, footsteps of people approaching seats

Sound Description/Level: Light, casual pre-show chatter, not too noisy

One Word: Cheery

Most Important Sounds: People talking, accapella music, jingling of seats 

Journal 2: Lizzy Tauro
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Date: February 27th, 2022

Location and Time: Hempstead, NY, Quad on Campus at 3:21pm

Far Sounds: voices laughing in the distance, squirrels running around a tree.

Medium Sounds: birds chirping

Close Sounds: The rustling of trees, “Crystal” by Stevie Nicks

Sound Description/Level: It sounds like a nice spring day picnic. A day that is cool because of wind but still nice enough to sit outside

One Word: calming

Most Important Sounds: “Crystal” Stevie Nicks, the trees rustling, 

Journal #2 Molly Guinen
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Time: Sunday, February 27th, 3:08pm

Location: my desk inside my room, the basement of my house

Far Sounds: two voices talking upstairs, someone watching something on TV in the living room, a big truck driving past the house

Medium Sounds: the dryer running, someone in the shower down the hall

Close sounds: my essential oil diffuser running, “Gypsy” by Fleetwood Mac playing quietly from my bluetooth speaker

Sound Description/Level: very typical weekend afternoon sounds, the house is quiet because most people are catching up on work from the week, its very few noises happening and all at very low noise level, lazy and kind of sleepy sounding environment

One Word Description: calm

Most important sounds: the music from my speaker, the dryer

Sound Journal Entry #2- Gabby Macallister
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Sunday, February 27th, 2:36pm

Location: The breakfast nook at Jane Street

Far Sounds: A car speeding on the main road, The Dixie Chicks playing in Lizzy’s room, the wind making the branches creak, trash bags rustling in the wind 

Medium Sounds: The dryer going, a metal button scraping in the dryer, Tori and Arianna laughing and talking, a car with a loud muffler driving by my house, doors creaking open and close, the wind whistling up against the windows, someone listening to country in the upstairs bathroom

Close sounds: My phone playing “More Than This” by One Direction, the mesh screen hitting the window, Tori and Arianna pouring water in the kitchen, chair creaking underneath me, radiator blowing out hot air in the bathroom

 Sound Description/Level: Loud but quiet, the only constant sound is the dryer going. It is like I am trying to focus on all of these sounds at once but they all happen so quickly. Sometimes all the sounds can be heard at once, but sometimes it is only the dryer that is going

One Word Description: Sporadic

Most important sounds: The mesh screen hitting on the window, Tori and Arianna laughing, metal button scraping in the dryer, chair creaking

Joey Perman Journal Entry #2
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February 27th, 10:08 AM

Location: The couch in my bedroom, facing the open door toward the living room

Farthest: An airplane flying overhead, a car driving by, Anna playing music in her room far down the hallway behind her closed door, Anna’s metal garland pattering against her door as it swings open

Medium: Andrew’s loud footsteps as he walks between his room and the kitchen across the wood floor in the hallway, Andrew rolling a suitcase across the kitchen tiles, the low hum of the refrigerator, Anna sneezing, Andrew saying bless you

Closest: Andrew’s door slowly creaking open, his metal sign hitting the door as it closes, my stomach grumbling

General sound level: There is a low but constant noise as the baseline in this environment, especially with the music playing; it feels like there is a chaos contained to the point where it feels calm from the outside

Sound environment: Contained

Defining sounds: Andrew’s footsteps across the hallway floor, the music playing behind Anna’s closed door, the suitcase rolling over the tiles

Journal 2
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Time/Location: Paper Source, 4:00 pm, 2/25/22

Far Sounds: cars driving past, honking, slight wind, light rain

Medium Sounds: construction from next door (muffled banging and screw guns), clacking key boards, boxes scraping over the ground

Close Sounds: miscellaneous customer conversations, loud contemporary pop music, scanner beeping

Sound Description/Level: Quite loud, always slightly overwhelming but just enough to set you on edge, many different kinds of sounds overlapping each other, conversations rise and fall but the music is a steady volume

One Word Description: hectic

Most important sounds: loud pop music, customer conversations, scanner beeping, and scraping boxes

 

Sound Journal #2~~ Kaitlyn Bancroft
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  1. February 23rd- 7:17pm- My room in Alliance Hall 
  2. Sounds farthest away are the shouts of residents in hallway and lobby outside of my door 
  3. Sounds in medium range to me is the loud and overbearing noise of air escaping the vents in my laptop as it grows hot, almost like a chugging. 
  4. Closest to me is the tapping of my hands hitting the keys as I furiously try to bang out an article the night before it is due. 
  5. There seems to be a fair amount of sound activity coming from all directions of the space I am in. 
  6. One word: Chaotic 
  7. For the feeling of this environment you definitely need the residents to still be screaming and you need the labored chugging of the laptop, the tapping also represents the chaotic nature because it is so rushed, so really every sound identified up top really enforces the sound environment. 

Sound Journal #2
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Location: Lowe 106

Far sounds: Chatter in the hallway, typing on computer keys, the unscrewing on a metal water bottle, 

Medium sounds: Thuds on the floor across the room, scraping of chair across hall from me, sparse clunking of piano keys, jingle of keys 

Close sounds: voices of those rehersing in the room, loud thuds of booted footsteps near my chair, 

Sound description/level: Wide variety of soft and loud/sounds. Some softer sounds I found to be more prominent and interesting than the loud, closer ones. There were so many different, varying sounds it was hard to take them all in. It reminded me of a busy street- no extrmely loud noises but the sheer amount of sounds made it feel louder and more intense. 

One word for the environment: Barrage

Important sounds: Voices from those rehersing in the room, thud of boots on the ground, loud chatter from the hallway outside

Sound Journal 2- Nicole Cullen
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Date: February 23rd, 2022

Location and Time: Student Center, 11:07 am

Far Sounds: Metal lids clanging onto pots, espresso machine steaming, beeping of Starbucks ovens, ice pouring into cups, door closing, chip bag crinkling open, Starbucks drink being shaken in a shaker/ice rattling against the plastic shaker, light jazz music playing in Starbucks lounge

Medium sounds: Chairs scraping on floor, laptop keys clacking, keys jangling, unwrapping of plastic utensils, group of friends laughing, shuffling of feet on the floor, jacket zipping closed

Close sounds: Michelle and Mackenzie discussing our script ideas, trash bin rolling across the ground, group of friends talking behind me, chair slamming on ground, jacket being placed on back of chair, backpack unzipping, popping of container opening

Sound Description/Level: Very loud, distracting, difficult to pinpoint a specific sound on its own/constant overlapping of sounds

One Word: Cacophony

Most Important Sounds: Michelle and Mackenzie discussing, light jazz music in the Starbucks lounge, groups of friends talking behind me

Journal 2- Gianna DiReda
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Date: February 25th, 2022

Time and Place: my bedroom, 2:02 pm

Close sounds: the TV on, the sound of my typing, the wind, a candle flickering

Medium sounds: cars outside the window, footsteps overhead from someone walking upstairs, a chair scraping outside the bedroom door

Far sounds: a neighbor doing maintenances, cars pulling into the parking lot across the street

Important sounds: the TV, the wind, my own typing

Sound description/level: medium, there are plenty of sounds being heard but not so much that it would be called noisy or loud.

One word for the “sound environment”: mundane