1- DATE-TIME-LOCATION
- Friday, February 7th, 2014. 8:42 AM, My living room.
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
• Garbage truck starting and stopping on the next block
• Gentle hum of the wind
• Television coming from another room, set on a very high volume
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
• Foot steps clonking as my neighbors make a mad-dash for the train station.
• The bell on my cat’s collar ringing as he prances around the house
• Cars rushing past behind me
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
• The gentle hum of my laptop
• The bell on my cat’s collar ringing as he prances around the house
• Another cat breathing as she sleeps soundly
• My mother singing Les Mis, horribly.
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
The general sound level is at a medium, half the people in my family are not present- but the loudest two are here. The amount of sound activity is decent, its at this time that the house is quiet enough to hear all the sounds my cats make, which is a lot.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
Free
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
• The television
• The rattling of my cat’s bell collar
• The birds chirping