Date: March 8, 2022
Location and Time: Psibrary in Lowe, 4:08 pm
Far Sounds: students rehearsing in musical theater class, footsteps going upstairs
Medium Sounds: freshman talking, laughing, and singing in the drounge, opening and closing of Lowe doors
Close Sounds: Nicole and Olivia typing on their computers, Olivia adjusting her chair
Sound Description/ Level: Energetic, loud
One Word: Bustling
Most important sounds: people talking, doors opening and closing
Location: My kitchen
Time: 10 PM
Far Sounds: Hofstra show in distance, cars outside driving by
Medium sounds: Washing machine, fridge
Close sounds: fish tank filter, typing, tv show
Overall noise level: Medium low
Important Sounds: Tv, fish tank, and cars
Location: Hager Hall, Professor Pell’s C+E second lecture class, 1:30pm
Farthest: Professor Pell talking, Air vent, someone answering a question
Medium: Pen’s clicking, girl walking to the garbage can, air vent
Closest: Girl writing behind me, pages turning
Level: Medium
Description: Intelligent
Important sounds: Professor Pell talking, people writing and clicking their pens, kid answering a question
Location: Vander Poel, Floor 13, 4/10/18 5:44pm
Farthest: People talking in the kitchen, the elevator door “ding-ing”
Medium: Air vent running, a girl writing in a notebook
Closest: Music playing in my headphones, me typing
Level: Quiet
Description: Productive
Important sounds: Typing, the elevator “ding-ing”, people talking in the kitchen
Location: Lowe 216, 2:09pm 4/2/18
Farthest: Wind blowing outside, people walking down the hall, the door opening
Medium: My friends talking about paint, Pei-Chi advising another student, ripping paper
Closest: People putting supplies away, a girl behind me ripping tape
Level: Medium-Loud
Description: Creative
Important sounds: Talking about paint, ripping paper and tape, Pei-Chi advising a student, people putting supplies away
Location: My boyfriend’s house, 3/28/18, 1:34 pm
Farthest: The wind outside
Medium: The TV upstairs, footsteps on the second floor
Closest: My boyfriend talking to his friend about going and getting another parakeet, his footsteps on the carpet, me sniffling
Level: Medium
Description: Impatient
Important sounds: My boyfriend on the phone, the TV upstairs, footsteps on the second floor
Location: Room 707 in Vander Poel, 8:45 am 3/13/18
Farthest: Snow being removed outside, wind blowing
Medium: Elevator dinging, the shower in the men’s bathroom running
Closest: My roommate snoring and my neighbor’s god awful and super loud alarm that woke me up and that did NOT need to be so intense on a snow day of all days
Level: Medium
Description: Annoying
Important sounds: The alarm, snow being removed, elevator dinging
1. 2/28/18 on the Northern State at 5:00
2. Honking, hip hop music, “F$@^ You!!!!”-Evil soccer mom
3. The sound of the road as my mom drives, the radio blasting Demi Lovato, the blinker indicators, the engine revving.
4. The wind rushing through the open windows, the beat of my heart.
5. Minimal sound activity. This was a challenge for myself to see what I could tune into in a non stationary environment. I feel like next time, I should stick with stationary environments.
6. Gravely
7. Engine revving, blinkers, radio.
1. Hofstra gym 2/20/18 @ 12:45 PM
2. Basketballs bouncing on the gym floor, disappointing pop music, dumbbells smacking the floor.
3. People’s footsteps, water bottles being used (drank from, picked up and down, etc.), the leg press being used, people grunting from the effort of heavy weights.
4. The squeakiness of the seat of the row machine, my heavy fast heartbeat, the creak of the bar next to me being adjusted.
5. The room itself isn’t very noisy, a lot of the sound is the radio or televisions.
6. Bass
7. The dumbbells, the disappointing music, and the sound of my potato chips.