Journal Entry #6

Outside of the Wellness Center (4/24/26, 11am)

Farthest – Basketball ball bouncing, car alarm going off, sirens of firetruck

Medium- sirens of the police officers, commercial buildings truck opening up

Closest – people chatting, the smoke alarm going off in the building, music playing

Sound Level – High

Description – Emergency

Essential Sounds – smoke alarm, sirens of firetruck/ police officers, music playing

Journal Entry 4/24/26

Jane St Backyard (4/23/26, 12:20am)

Farthest – Cars on Hempstead Turnpike, the sound of roadwork machinery, an ambulance siren.

Medium – Crickets chirping, the leaves in the trees rustling.

Closest – The fire crackling, friends chatting quietly, a guitar being played.

Sound Level – Low

Description – Peaceful

Essential Sounds – The guitar, the fire crackling, my friend’s voices.

Journal 7

04/23/26

Captain’s Field, 6 pm

Farthest: Cars driving past, audience shouting, cheering

Medium: flag football players running, ref yelling, whistles

Close: team members cheering, speaker playing music

Sound Level: Loud

Description: Excited anticipation

Essential sounds: Cheering, audience shouting, players running, whistles, speakers playing music, team members cheering

Journal Entry #7

4/24/26–1:02pm—Doughnut Plant, Brooklyn

Farthest: cars honking, cars driving past

Medium: Coffee machines, coins clinking, music over speakers, air conditioning running

Close: wrapper crinkling, conversation, footsteps

Sound Level: medium

Description: Pleasantly busy

Essential sounds: coffee machine, coins clinking, conversation

 

Journal Entry #7

1. 9/23/26, 9pm, NFL Draft party

2. Air conditioning, cars outside, oven in kitchen turning on

3. Front door opening, bottles being opening, bags of chips rustling, couch springs creaking

4. TV playing ESPN, people near me hooting and hollering, music from bluetooth speaker

5. Sound level is high, lots of different things happening among the bunch of people in the room

6. Overwhelming

7. Essential sounds are the TV, people hooting and hollering at it, and the bottles.

Journal Entry #6

1- 4/23/26, 2:34 pm, Bench by Stadium Road Entrance of Hofstra Campus

2- Cars speeding by, A car being locked(beep!), Siren

3- Woman talking on the phone, Engine running, Tires screeching on concrete, Birds Chirping

4- Wind blowing, Sniffling, Water bubbling in water bottle

5- General sound level is medium, and the amount of sound activity is constant

6- Chaotic

7- Cars speeding by, Wind blowing, a car being locked(beep!)

Field Recording #5

Location: Outside Hofstra Hall late at night

Sounds: Cars/Trucks driving down the turnpike, Trucks beeping (possibly reversing?), Wind, Walking, then there’s that really eerie sound (that night there was construction happening on the turnpike, they were repaving the road, I saw later there were steamrollers on the road, but I couldn’t figure out what was making that metal rubbing sound)

Journal Entry #6

  1. 4/21/26, 6:00pm, Central Park
  2. Farthest: Cars driving past, people playing volleyball, cars honking
  3. Medium: People talking indistinctly, wind blowing, birds chirping, person singing in the park
  4. Closest: Dogs barking, people running, bikes going by, friends talking next to me, people walking nearby
  5. Sound level: very loud
  6. Description: park
  7. 5 Essential: Dogs barking, cars honking, birds chirping, wind going by, people walking