Location: Living room
In this you can hear my housemate telling me that our snail died. Really cool timing. You can also hear shuffling around in the kitchen, and me reacting to the news.
Monthly Archives: February 2024
Field Recording 1
Location: My bedroom
Sounds: Birds chirping (windows are open), door creaking, planes, faint talking, cars, wind, computer fan, thumping from in the house.
Journal Entry #2
Keri Haslebacher
2/24 6:30pm Student Center Pride Den
Furthest Sound: The hum of the heater on the other side of the room
Medium Range Sound: Group of people arguing and some jazz music being played
Closest Sound: The taping of my friends pencil on the table, and the the clicking of keys on a keyboard
Sound Level: Medium. Loud off in the distance but pretty quite where I am
One Word: Ambient
Essential Sounds: Chatter, Music, Keys
Field Recording #2
Location: a house concert.
The sounds heard in this clip consists of singing, quiet drumming, guitar strumming, people talking, laughter, and applause/cheering.
Journal Entry #2
Date: 2/22 11:15, backrooms of Bits and Bytes
Farthest away from me: The blender whirring at Red Mango
Medium range: People typing and talking in the next room
Closest to me: Two guys at the table next to me talking about their math homework
The sound level is just above a murmur. When the guys at the table stop talking, my surroundings are very quiet.
One word: Buzzing
3 essential sounds: Quiet chatter, typing, and the blender in the food area
Field Recording 1
Location: Blackbox lobby
Sounds: people speaking inaudibly in the background, someone singing a little tune, slightly more distinct yet still difficult to understand conversations, Phoebe talking about her sister coming to visit, laughing
Sound Journal 2
2/24 4:54PM; my bedroom
sound that feels farthest away from me: either a party or a sports event happening down the street
medium range: plane flying overhead
sound closest to me: my strangely loud breathing; the sound of me typing; my housemate rustling around on the other side of our shared wall
sound level: it’s quiet in the sense that nothing is happening around me but loud because of what’s going on down the street
one word: awake
essential sounds: my housemate, the party, my breathing
Journal Entry
2/24/24
Place: my room
Sound closest to me: keyboard clacking, my music playing
Sound in medium distance: water running, cat meowing halfheartedly
Sound in distance: cars driving by, the door opening downstairs
Sound level: low
One word: soft
Essential Sounds: my music, water running, cat meowing
Sound Journal
Hofstra Fitness Center 8:07 PM Friday
sounds closest to me: Weights slamming, chattering, sounds of metal banging together
medium distance: pop music playing from the radio, more weights
Furthest from me: cars from outside driving by
sound level: it is pretty loud, as the weights are slamming constantly and people are talking loudly. It is pretty busy.
one word: Rough
essential sounds: the weights slamming, the music playing, the people talking to show that it is crowded
Journal Entry #2
2/23/24 – 11:33 pm – my friends dorm
Farthest Sound – the farthest sound from me is the cars racing down Oak Street, honking at other cars that are going “too slow”
Medium Sound – the sound that is in medium distance from my friend’s air purifier, a white noise background noise if you will
Closest Sound – the closest sound from me is my besties ranting about the newest tea in around campus and a song playing on my friend’s tiktok
The sound level – the sound level continues to vary like the shape of a wave due to the people around me getting really into what they are explaining
One word – drama
Essential sounds – talking, white noise, honking, cars driving quite fast
Farthest Sound – the farthest sound from me is the cars racing down Oak Street, honking at other cars that are going “too slow”
Medium Sound – the sound that is in medium distance from my friend’s air purifier, a white noise background noise if you will
Closest Sound – the closest sound from me is my besties ranting about the newest tea in around campus and a song playing on my friend’s tiktok
The sound level – the sound level continues to vary like the shape of a wave due to the people around me getting really into what they are explaining
One word – drama
Essential sounds – talking, white noise, honking, cars driving quite fast