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Journal #4
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1 – 2/20/14 – 6:30ish pm, Napolini Express

2 – Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
-Music playing through the speakers
-Chatting of Nappo’s customers

3 – Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
-Ringing bell caused by door opening and closing.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     -Lauren telling a story about Canada                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 -Marissa laughing at this story

 

4 – Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
– Jackie tapping her fingers
– The sound of my chewing pizza

5 – Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
– The environment has the sound of any typical restaurant. It is buzzing with various people’s conversations, and the hum of the machines making pizza.

6 – Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
– Humming

7 – Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
-Music playing
– Lauren talking
-Bell on the door

Journal #4: WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP THERE???
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1. 2/19/2014, 3:07 AM, My bed in Vander Poel 1207

2. Identify the sounds farthest from you: Farthest from me, I can hear my AC unit.  It is off, but it always makes some kind of white noise.  I can also hear Marina’s sleeping breathing/snoring  (Do I have to ask permission for this???).  Whenever someone opens a door in the hallway or goes into the bathroom, I can hear them and the door they open and close.  I actually really like the sound of people moving around on my floor.  It is less lonely when you know other people are awake at 3:00 AM.  However, the sounds at medium range have got to stop… [WARNING: dramatic post]

3. Identify the sounds at medium range:  The sounds at medium range are the focus of this journal entry.  I don’t know what event is going on on the 13th floor of my building once or twice a week at 2:00-4:00 AM, but it sure is annoying and disconcerting.  I am not the best sleeper, so tonight, I am taking a moment from trying to fall asleep to note my sound environment…which is not assisting in my entering dreamland.  I think that there is a group of people in the common room above my room either playing a really intense game of foosball or taking a break from studying to practice their sumo wrestling.  There is an occasional boom coming from the ceiling, and it sounds like someone is falling to their knees or body slamming someone to the tightly carpeted floor.  It honestly sounds like the cement ceiling is going to crack and the structure of the ceiling/floor are just going to crumble on to me and my little bed.  Maybe one of those foosball sumo wrestlers will come along with the rubble.

4. Identify the sounds closest to you: When I lifted my phone to record evidence of the annoying sounds coming from above my bed, my elbow cracked.  Elbows make such high-pitched cracks.  I can also hear my breathing when I lay on my side and my right ear is pressed to my pillow.  When I reposition my hand holding my phone, I can hear the way it brushes my phone case, which is a plastic/cardboard hybrid material.  Oh! And I am congested, so I can hear mucus in my head, when I swallow (Ewe).

5. General sound level and activity:  The sound activity is pretty dull, except for when the ceiling sounds like it’s being pounded into pieces.  It’s the middle of the night, so it is quite calm, with intermittent disturbances.

6. One word to describe the sound environment: Disturbed

7. 3 essential sounds to the sound environment: 

– The AC unit white noise

-The crashing from above

-Marina’s sleep breathing

 

Journal Entry #4
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1.  Thursday 2/20, 7:30 pm, HofUSA

2.  Identify sounds farthest away from you:

  • The sounds of video games from the arcade room
  • Clattering of metal from the back kitchen
  • The front doors opening and closing

3.  Identify sounds at medium range from you:

  • People ordering/talking on line
  • The banging from the air hockey game being played
  • General conversation

4.  Identify sounds closest to you:

  • The girl next to me asking for her order to be fixed
  • The banging of the game of pool behind me
  • The Olympic theme and coverage from the tv.

5.  Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity:

The room is full of ongoing games and conversation provided by the air hockey and pool tables.  There are general cheers stemming from the games and a white noise of conversation in the background.  The sound level is fairly high as it usually can be described as excited.

6.  Assign a one word description to the sound environment:

vibrant

7.  Select three sounds that are essential to the environment:

  • The pool game
  • General Conversation
  • The girl asking for her order to be fixed

 

 

 

Journal Entry 11
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1. Friday, April 19, 2013, 2:02 am, Graham’s Bedroom

2. Sounds Farthest: the house settling? A car passing on the street.

3. Sounds Medium Distance: Graham’s friends on X-Box live headset

4. Closest sounds: Graham talking to his friends over X-Box live, Call of Duty Zombies playing, going from a lot of shooting to the main menu.

5. Not particularly loud, but it only seems loud because of the lateness of the hour

6. Disoriented

7. The shootings in CoD, Graham talking, the buzz of his friends talking over headset.

Journal Entry 9
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1- 04/05/2013- 12:41 am- My room in Vander Poel

2- Sounds farthest away: Extreme silence. The occasional car passing by on Oak Street and some wind, but not a whole lot.

3- Sounds at medium range: Radiator’s hum, Caitlin breathing, Graham breathing, a small burst of laughter from Graham.

4- Sounds closest: My toes cracking, the bottom edge of a poster behind my head sliding along the wall, keyboard keys, a computer fan, my own breathing.

5- General sound level and amount of sound activity: It’s almost uncomfortably quiet in here, as we’re all in our own little worlds.

6- One word description to the “sound environment”: Unnerving.

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.: Computer fan, radiator hum, keyboard keys

Journal Entry 7
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1- March 15, 2013, 1:07 am, just outside Hofstra USA
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you. –  Cars (very few of them, as it’s late) some people talking

3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you. – people talking and walking, the base from the music playing in Hofstra USA the door to dutch treats opening and closing, the rustling of a paper bag caught in a tree and wind.

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant). – Keyboard keys, my breathing indicating that I’m shivering, the doors to Hofstra USA opening and closing, my friend Petra talking to me, and my phone receiving a text.

5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity. – Very quiet, serene, and peaceful. It’s as if i’m in my own bubble and the noises and stress of the outside world are barely touching me. Except for the fact that I’m still cold.

6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”. –  Peaceful

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try to figure out what sounds make up this environment and which of those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment to stay intact. – Wind, the dull base, and the plastic bag. Perhaps the cars in the distance as well.

Journal Entry 6
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1- Spiegel Theater, 11:26 pm Wednesday March 6 at Tim Burton-themed Cabaret

2- Farthest away: Doors opening and closing (from outside to the atrium, atrium to the house, and house to backstage)

3- Medium range: People singing and talking, David Murray playing electric guitar, footsteps as people travel up and down the voms and on the stage.

4- Sounds closest: Computer keyboard keys, Athena and Kaitlin talking with Rachel Levi interjecting now and again.

5- General sound level and amount of sound activity: For a Cabaret, the noise level was relatively under control. It was at about the level of a nice restaurant, with the lull of conversation going on, the few bits of conversation you could pick out and distinguish from the rest of the buzz, and people moving around to and fro.

6-One word description to the “sound environment”: Energized

7- 3 sounds essential to the sound environment. Electric guitar, thudding footsteps, drama students chatting with each other.

Sound Journal #4
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1:  Saturday, February 16, 2013, 3:17 am, My Room in Alliance Hall

 

2:  Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.

The boys two doors down the hall are having some sort of party in their room.  Their subwoofers emit a thunderous bass line that combines with the high-pitch clangor of their laughter and general horseplay to create a cacophony that precludes any sleep.  The voice of a more stentorian girl carries the most; she flirts with Matt, the louder of the two roommates, by protesting loudly (albeit unconvincingly) to whatever he is trying to do to her, with seemingly interminable iterations of “Stawwwp it!”  This ruckus persists for over an hour before either Matt or Henry turns the music off to speak with a girl at their door.  She is the girl whose single sits between the boys’ room and mine and thusly has taken the brunt of their late-night, sonic assault.  I can hear her something garbled about how it’s 3:00 am, and then the doors to respective rooms close.  Thankfully, the music stays off.

 

3:  Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.

In an attempt to drown out the sound of the random dorm party, I am blasting the heat in my room, making use of the fuzzy sound of the hot air rushing out of the grate, as well as the hum of the unit itself.  As an additional measure, I have turned on an old, white noise machine, so that the its assertive whir blends in with the sound of my heater and provides me further aural distance from the racket.

 

4: Identify and list the sounds closest to you (– you can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).

Through a set of headphones, I listen to an ASMR video on YouTube in yet another attempt to batten down my ears.  A woman whispers into a set of binaural microphones, smacking her lips and making little clicking sounds with her tongue that are very relaxing.  She slowly goes through the entire Greek alphabet, naming each letter with a thick accent.

 

5: Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.

The noise level is very high – even two doors down, the sounds from the party are louder than anything happening in my own room.

 

6: Assign a one-word description to the “sound environment”.

“Antagonistic”

 

7: Select and list 3 sounds that are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try and figure out what sounds make up this environment and which of those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment to stay intact.

The sound of my ASMR video is not as important as the external sounds of the party, with which I come into conflict with my attempts to tune them out.  Thus, the warring sounds of Matt and Henry’s music (and their very loud, pitchy voices) and my heater and white noise machine are most essential to the combative mood of this sonic environment.

Journal Entry 4
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1- Date/Time/Location.
2.21.13/9:15 pm/Game Room

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
Doors opening and closing

3- Identify and list the sounds at medium range from you.
People yelling at computer screens, a Mario video game being played, keyboards clicking

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
Pool balls hitting each other, me and Graham talking to each other, another group talking and playing pool besides us

5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
Somewhat high activity, but the sound level was not always consistent.

6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
Agressive

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
Gamers yelling at each other, pool balls hitting each other, Mario music