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
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.
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
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
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.
Location: Bench outside of James M. Shuart Stadium
Sounds Heard:
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!)
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)
Sounds heard: nail drill, relaxing music, phone ringing, someone answering the phone, water running, people talking