Field Recording #5

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Location: my house

The sounds heard in this clip consists of my fan, music playing faintly from my neighbor’s house, distant clanging/beeping, and my housemates talking downstairs.

Journal Entry #5

4/12/2024, 5:29PM. My room

Sounds farthest away from me: cars driving down the street, music playing a few houses down

sounds at medium range: birds chirping outside my window, people walking around the house

sounds closest to me: my fingers tapping the keys on my computer, my stomach growling, my own breathing

The sound level is quiet and the sound activity is consistently low

One word description: peaceful

Essential sounds: Footsteps, cars, birds

Sound Journal April 12th

  1. Maryland, April 12th, 7:00 AM, My friend’s brother’s house

2. Sounds further away from me – birds very quietly chirping, wind hitting trees lightly

3. Sounds medium range – footsteps of someone walking to the bathroom

4. Sounds closest to me – a rooster being loud. (the room I was in is right in front of the backyard where the roosters are)

5. The sound level is pretty low and quiet until every once and a while the rooster makes a loud and abrupt change. Sound activity is pretty low as well, not much is going on besides the rooster

6. Morning

7. the rooster, and the footsteps

 

Journal Entry #4

  1. April 10, 2024. 3:11 pm. Basement of Berliner Hall in Astronomy class
  2. Professor speaking to his class in a room down the hall
  3. The sounds of my classmates typing, the fan in the back of the room
  4. My professor lecturing right in front of me (I’m in the front row), my own sniffles because I have a cold. My classmates speaking.
  5. General sound level: low to medium. There is a low amount of activity because there is never more than one person speaking at once.
  6. One word: academic
  7. Essential sounds: Dr. Lacy’s voice, classmates speaking, typing noises.

Journal Entry #4

 

1- 4/10/24 – 12:35 – Tables outside of Bits ‘n’ Bytes

2- People talking on the other side of the quad, cars driving down the turnpike, shuffled steps on the concrete.
3- Birds chirping, someone’s heels clacking on the cement as they walk, leaves rustling in the wind, someone’s keys jangling as they walk.
4- My friend typing at the computer next to me, an airplane flying overhead, someone laughing at the table next to me, the ice in my drink shifting as I pick it up and take a sip, the sound of someone’s skateboard as they skate by my table.
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity – Sound level: low and quiet; Sound activity: relatively high, there are a lot of different noises and sounds outside.
6- Peaceful.
7- The birds, the ambience voices throughout the quad, and the steps and general movement of the people passing by.