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Sound Journal #8
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1 – 3/24/14 – 3:00pm – Cancer Center (Clinic), Stony Brook University Hospital

2 – Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
-An episode of Spongebob playing on one of the TVs in the treatment room.
-A medicine cart’s wheels squeaking as a nurse pushes it down the hallway.
-A child crying in a nearby examination room.

3 – Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
-The nurses’ footsteps as they walk toward examination rooms or the treatment room.
-One of the doctors speaking to a patient.

4 – Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
-The beeping and drone sounds that the blood pressure machine makes.
-The sliding of the device that measures my height.
-The pinging of the scale.
-Sounds of the doors being opened and shut.

5 – Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
-There was a medium sound level in the clinic during my routine checkup. Most of the sounds I heard began and ended quickly, such as the beeping sounds and the door shutting. The cart’s squeaking and the child crying were the sounds that could be heard above everything else. In terms of activity, the sounds were occurring at a quick and steady pace.

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

7 – Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
-The sounds of the blood pressure machine.
-The medicine cart’s wheels squeaking.
-The pinging of the scale.

Field Recording #6
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3/15/12   8:45 pm   Gas station

You can hear the voice and echo of a woman talking on the screens where the gas pumps are throughout the recording.  Cars whoosh by in front of me and the sounds get louder as they come closer.  At the end you hear the car door being opened and there are a few beeping noises  signaling that the door is open.

Journal Entry 7
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1) 3/17/11-3:00 p.m.-Kitchen on the 12th floor of Alliance Hall

2) The sounds furthest away from me included the ding of the elevator, a television blaring in a nearby study room, buzz of the fluorescent lights, and people talking outside the kitchen.

3) The sounds in medium range from me included the hum of the air vent above, the buzz of the fluorescent lights, person humming near the microwave, microwave beep, popcorn bag crinkling open, chewing and crunching of popcorn, and the kitchen door opening and closing.

4) The tink of my metal water bottle hitting the table, my breathing, and knuckles cracking would be considered sounds closest to me.

5) The sound level was low because only one other person was in the kitchen with me, but there were many dings and beeps around me so there were many sound sources.

6) Agreeable

7) The sound of the microwave beeping, the sound of the television blaring in another room, and the chewing of food.