Location: Hofstra University Starbucks Cafe
Sounds to be heard:
–the distant echo of chatter coming from the student center
— steam spurting from the espresso machine
— coffee beans grinding in the coffee machine
— a stool scraping across the floor as someone gets up from their seat.
Location: My room, Hempstead
Sounds heard: typing on a laptop, clicking of mouse, swiping of mouse pad, rustling of blanket, breathing.
This was in bits and bytes where my friends and I spend a lot of time just having random conversations. I did ask them if I could just record and they agreed so there was consent. Enjoy!
Location: Outside of the Hofstra Fitness Center by the baseball field, 6:10 pm
Sounds Heard:
Time/location: my dorm room in Constitution Hall, 6:31pm
Sounds heard:
Outside of home, Hempstead NY, 3:50pm
Identify the location of the clip: Rainy snowy day inside my car and heading to work.
Identify the sounds heard in the clip:
Location: My room, early morning
Far sounds: Cars going past in the street, birds chirping, rumble of the landry room as someone was sipping their laundry, one airplane go across the sky, couching in the kitchen, a few sirens going off in the distance
Medium sounds: Sounds of footsteps overhead as Joey walks about in their room, my diffuser quietly spitting out moist air, Michelle shifting clothes around in her closet behind the wall across the room from me
Close sounds: My oscillating fan going off, intercut by my alarms peridically
Sounds description: Calming, soothing environment, gentle monotonous repetition underscored by the fan
Important sounds: The fan and the footsteps over head and the birds chirping
Date: February 10th, 2022
Location and time: 9:11am my room in the basement of my house, Hempstead NY
Far sounds: a bird chirping on the ground somewhere near my window
Medium sounds: someone walking in the second story of the house, a door closing in the second story, the front door slamming from someone leaving for class
Close sounds: foot steps above my head from someone walking in the kitchen, my housemate closing the bathroom door, the heater creaking in my room
Sound/description level: it’s the very typical sounds to wake up to on a weekday, the sounds I hear pretty much every morning, people moving around the house and each of them getting ready to leave and go to their first classes of the day, people are trying to be quiet because it’s the morning and they don’t want to disturb our other house mates but they’re also rushing to get ready and leave on time
One word: comforting
Most important sounds: foot steps above my head, the front door closing, the creaking of the radiator in my room