Location: UBS Arena loading docks
Date & Time: 3/13/26 (1:38pm)
Identifiable Sounds:
-Van doors opening and closing
-Footsteps
-White noise
-Van suspension creaking
Monthly Archives: March 2026
Field Recording #3
Location: In the car outside of the Wellness Center
Sound Heard:
- Keys dangling
- Radio is on
- Hear the car beeping
- Door slamming
- the car engine turning on
Field Recording #3
Location: Calkins Quad
Sounds Heard:
- Sirens
- Birds Chirping
- Revving of an engine
- Audible sigh
- Human inhaling
- Jangling keychain
- People talking
- Short scream/holler
- Rustling of papers/notebook
- General street traffic
- Phone being moved
Journal Entry
- 3/6/26, 12:30pm, Lidl, Lake Grove
- Farthest: Chatter from customers waiting on line
- Medium: Shuffling of customers placing their groceries on the belt/music from the speakers (side note: we are pretty sure the music that is played from the speakers is generated from AI)
- Closest: The beeping every time I scan an item
- Sound Level/Activity: The sound level was pretty high, due to it being midday on a Friday and at that time we generally get pretty busy, so with all the people, and several registers open it can get loud and pretty overstimulating
- Description: Grocery store, normal activity
- Essential Sounds: Beeping from the register, pushing of the carts, the speaker system announcing which registers are open/closed, music from the speakers
Journal Entry #3
- 3/6/2026, 7:00-10:00 pm, Hofstra Game Room during a Mario Kart Tournament
- Farthest: Pool (cue balls clashing and going in pockets), air hockey, ping pong
- Medium: Music, Talking/Yelling, Mario Kart noises, games, stomping
- Closest: Analog sticks and button clicks on the controllers
- Sound Level/Activity: A lot of different noises from a lot of different games and people. The level of sounds changes from low to high constantly. Cluttered.
- Description: Arcade.
- Essential: Controller noises, games music/noises, talking/yelling.
Journal Entry #3
1- 03/06/26-1:30 pm – Home
2- Furthest Sounds: Dryer humming noise in the basement and Cars driving past by the block.
3- Medium Range: TV playing in the living room, kettle whistling, pots and pans slamming
4- Closest Range: Music playing out of my laptop, clicking noise coming out of my keyboard.
5- The general sound level was in the medium. Nothing too loud or too quiet and the sound activity is average/moderate sound activity.
6- Normal
7-Kettle whistling, dryer humming, tv playing
Journal Entry #3
Time: 10PM
Place: My dorm in Dover Hall, Hempstead, NY
Close sounds: Laptop keyboard typing, medium sized heater, various phone notifications, shoes sliding on tile floor.
Medium Sounds: Doors opening and closing, toilet flushing, whistling from the window
Faraway Sounds: Unintelligible conversations in the hallway, footsteps from hallway,
Sound Level: The hum of the heater is constant and presently quiet. The other sound elements are sporadic and random while being loud enough to distract.
Description: Stable
Essential Sounds: Hum from heater, footsteps, laptop keyboard typing. Passing conversations.
Journal Entry #3
Time: 10:30 am
Place: Corner of Broadfield and Jane st
Close sounds: A mourning dove overhead, a squirrel rustling leaves across dry grass
Medium Sounds: a neighbor using an impact driver, music playing from my roommate’s window out onto the street (the heavy louder than the rest of the song)
Faraway sounds: Cars revving on Hempstead turnpike, planes overhead every once in a while, sirens, car horns honking, wind.
Sound Level: The majority of the sounds are low, bass-heavy hums, however the mourning dove is at a medium level, and the impact driver is very loud.
One Word Description: Rhythmic
Essential Sounds: Mourning dove, impact driver, cars on the turnpike, and roommate’s music.
Journal Entry 3
- Time and Place: Playhouse, 7:41pm, 3/6
- Farthest: shuffling and chatting from audience
- Medium: wheels squeaking
- Closest: orchestra playing from the pit
- Sound Level/Activity: The sound level is consistently at a medium volume
- Description: bouncy
- Essential: pit warming up, speaking and laughing from audience.
Journal Entry #3
3/6/26–6:08 P.M.—13th Floor Lounge of Estabrook Hall
Furthest— doors slamming on floor below, ice machine clattering in the kitchen, distant laughing
Medium— elevator doors opening, conversation in the room over, TV playing nearby, music being played off of someone’s phone in the kitchen
Close— keyboard typing, sound of AC/heater running, footsteps on the floor, doors opening
Sound Level— Medium, not super quiet but the strongest noise is not nearby
Description— Routine
Essential Sounds— ice machine clattering, elevator doors opening, sound of AC/heater running