Time: 3/22/24 5:56 pm
Location: My backyard, River Vale, NJ
Sounds: Geese squawking, birds chirping, wind chimes playing progressively louder, wind blowing, my footsteps on the stone,
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Time: 3/16/25 – 9:45 PM
Location: Texas Roadhouse, East Meadow, NY
Sounds: Music, people applauding/cheering for someone’s birthday, ice cubes rattling in my Shirley Temple drink, cups touching the hardwood tables, and silverware clinking.
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- 3/14 – 7:30pm
- Location: Graduate Residence Hall Elevator
- Elevator Sounds, Doors Opening, pinning noises, white noise. Fingers tapping
Field Recording #3
Open Window – March 14th – 7:00pm
Sounds: Wind, cars driving by, birds chirping
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- 3/13 – 5:30pm
- Monroe @ the Helena Fortunoff Theater
- Band warming up, vocal teacher talking to the chorus, feedback from the microphones
Field Recording – 3rd Entry
Time: 7:10 AM
Location: Boston Airport
Sounds: People chatting and laughing, someone speaking on the radio, footsteps on tile to carpet, coughing, and someone dragging their bag on the carpet floor.
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Journal Entry #3
- 3/7 – Monroe Practice Room 3pm
- Sounds farthest away: doors opening and closing, keypads beeping
- Sounds medium distance: the people playing piano and singing in the rooms next to me
- Sounds closest to me: piano playing, music coming from my laptop
- General sound level: Medium level
- One word to describe sound environment: Harmonious
- Three important sounds: piano, people practicing around me, music from my laptop
3rd Journal Entry
March 7th, 2025 – 7:06 AM – Boston Airport
Far Sounds: Coffee machines, receipts printing, footsteps
Medium Sounds: Overhead announcements, people chattering and laughing, footsteps
Closest Sounds: The person next to me typing loudly on his phone, typing on my keyboard, music playing softly in my AirPods
General Sound Level: A soft medium level, not too loud for a big area of social setting
One word describing the Sound Environment: Mediocre
Three Important Sounds: Minimal Chattering, overhead announcements, rolling suitcases
Sound Journal #3
- 3/8/25 New York City (34th and 8th outside Penn station)
- Sounds farthest away: Construction, music playing
- Sounds at a medium distance: horns honking, subways running,
- Sounds nearest to me: People talking, footsteps falling,
- The general sound level: loud and bustling
- One word to describe sound environment : busy
- Three important sounds: horns, people talking, subway
Journal Entry #3
1. 3/8/25 – 5:42 PM – George Washington Bridge
2. Far Sounds: I hear the bus tires tracking on the highway, a low-pitched vibration from the bus slowing down, and wind whistling through the crevices of the windows.
3. Medium Sounds: I hear rattling from the window shades tapping on the window, someone putting on hairspray, and the bus engine whirring.
4. Close Sounds: I hear my students talking to each other, the bus’s turn blinker, and the bus’s roof clanging.
5. The general sound level is mild. The sound activity is constant.
6. The sound environment is soothing.
7. Three sounds essential to the sound environment are the bus engine whirring, the bus’s roof clanging, and someone putting on hairspray.