Posts Tagged ‘Busy’
March 27th, 2014 | 
Author: 1. 3/27/2014, 10:24, Student Center Cafe
2. Identify the sounds farthest from you: Kids on the balcony fooling around, The Sbarro chefs preparing the pizza for the night, muffled music playing from speakers in the atrium, a door opening and slamming shut on the floor above.
3. Identify the sounds at medium range: The people at the table next to me, discussing the latest fashion, the girl two seats over tapping on her computer, the person at the table over tapping their fingers really loudly.
4. Identify the sounds closest to you: Emily crunching her water bottle, and playing with her phone case, Christina and Emily discussing something quite loudly, Christina fiddling with her keys. The girl directly next to me crunching on some potato chips, opera music suddenly blaring from the tv.
5. General sound level and activity: Even though there are not many people in here, the Student Center is still very active. The sound activity is very busy, and there is a wide variety of sounds around me. The noise level is high, but not unbearable
6. One word to describe the sound environment: Active
7. 3 essential sounds to the sound environment:
The TV blaring
Sbarro’s chef’s knife slamming against the cutting board
The potato chips crunching (one of my pet peeves)
. 2/13/14, 401 Stuyvesant Hall, 10:48 pm
2. Identify sounds farthest from you:
- the sound of the sink running in the bathroom
- voices from the other room
- feet walking in the common room
3. Identify sounds at medium range from you:
- the tv playing in the common room
- the door to the suite opening and closing
- the my friend playing her piano
4. Identify sounds closet to you:
- the music coming from the pandora station on the computer
- the rustle of the popcorn bag as my friend eats
- the crunch of the popcorn
- the clicking of my keys
5. Describe the level of sound activity: The level of activity is high. There are a lot of people over, each doing their own thing, creating their own noises.
6. One word to describe to describe the sound environment: Fun
7. Three sounds that make the sound environment:
- The music
- the tv sounds
- the piano
1- 2/14/2013 (Happy Valentine’s Day all!)-3:57 pm- in the middle of the food section of Au Bon Pain on campus.
2- Sounds farthest away: Hissing of what sounds like a latte machine, staff at the sandwich-making stand yelling customer’s names and orders.
3- Sounds at medium range: People shaking out plastic bags to grab food, constant low hum from the refrigerated food aisle.
4- Sounds at closest range: People chattering at various volumes, sometimes yelling very excitedly, loud laughter, the sporadic screech of shoes against the tile floor, soup lids clanking, muffled shuffling of feet walking by.
5- General sound level and amount of sound activity: Sound level is very high and tumultuous. There are no peaks and valleys, highs and lows. The sound is at a constant high chaos and there are no lulls. There is no harmony or order to the various sounds. The origins of the majority of the sounds are very near me, which could potentially make others feel claustrophobic however to me it is not at all off-putting, but rather a happy and exciting chaos.
6- One word description to the “sound environment”: Lively.
7- 3 sounds essential to the sound environment. People chattering at various volumes, muffled shuffling of feet walking by, staff at the sandwich-making stand yelling customer’s names and orders.
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Sound Observation – Student Center 7AM
Georgia Andre
– Date/Time/Location
– 4..26-12 / 7am /Student Center
2- Describe sound far away
Automatic door oopening and closing, garbage cans being pushed, food carts being pushed
3- Identify and list the sounds at medium range from you
– The TV news, the gate opening and closing to the food area
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
– My laptop playing music, my fingers typing
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
-Its a large room so the sound gets echoed and spread out a little everywhere, the sound level increases tas the time gets later and more chatter is heard
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
– Busy
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
– TV, Carts being pushed, People talking
Date, Time, Location: Thursday March 15th, 2012; 9:30PMish, the mall
Farthest Sounds: Cash registers, and elevator/escalator gears, many individual and small conversations
Medium Range Sounds: clanking from custodial equipment, many individual and small conversations
Closets Sounds: a small group having conversations, ambient music from outside jcpenny, automatic doors
Sound Activity (Amount/Level): Loud and energetic
Descriptive Word: Busy
Essential Sounds: all of the Conversations, ambient pop songs, automatic doors
Date, Time, Location: Friday February 24h, 2012; 706AMish, 24 bagel and deli
Farthest Sounds: banging of pots and pans, oven door slamming
Medium Range Sounds: knives against cutting board, tears of foil and wax paper
Closets Sounds: cash register key and receipt paper
Sound Activity (Amount/Level): medium volume
Descriptive Word: Busy
Essential Sounds: Knives against bagels/cutting board, cash register keys, oven door slamming