Date: 2/22 11:15, backrooms of Bits and Bytes
Farthest away from me: The blender whirring at Red Mango
Medium range: People typing and talking in the next room
Closest to me: Two guys at the table next to me talking about their math homework
The sound level is just above a murmur. When the guys at the table stop talking, my surroundings are very quiet.
One word: Buzzing
3 essential sounds: Quiet chatter, typing, and the blender in the food area
2/24 4:54PM; my bedroom
sound that feels farthest away from me: either a party or a sports event happening down the street
medium range: plane flying overhead
sound closest to me: my strangely loud breathing; the sound of me typing; my housemate rustling around on the other side of our shared wall
sound level: it’s quiet in the sense that nothing is happening around me but loud because of what’s going on down the street
one word: awake
essential sounds: my housemate, the party, my breathing
2/22/24 – 12:51PM – The Student Center
Sounds farthest from me: People talking at different volumes across the Student Center, the workers making drinks, kitchen noises from other food places.
Sounds at a medium range from me: The music playing from the speakers, chairs moving, wrappers crinkling.
Closest to me: My friends’ conversation, keyboard clacking, my friend’s jewelry clanking as she writes.
Sound level: The sound level is medium to high – there is a lot of high volume volumes happening around. There are a lot of people at the Student Center at common hour all talking loudly. The metal dishes at Starbucks are loud as well.
Sound activity: There is a lot of sound activity. There is a lot of people talking and a lot of general physical activity happening that creates a lot of noise.
One work description for the sound environment: Noisy
Three sounds that are essential to the sound environment: Starbucks noises, my friends talking, music playing in Starbucks.
Date: 2/9 6:51, my upstairs living room
Farthest away from me: My downstairs housemates talking in their kitchen
Medium range: My refrigerator humming in the kitchen and my upstairs housemate’s desk chair creaking a few times per minute
Closest to me: My keyboard clacking as I type and my occasional sniffling. My other housemate typing on her phone and clearing her throat
The sound level is very quiet. My other 2 housemates are out of the house and everyone is sort of decompressing from the day on their own in different parts of the house.
One word: Mundane
3 essential sounds: Chatter of the downstairs housemates, the fridge, and my housemate’s nails as she types her phone.
2:45pm // speigel theater SFAB open forum // April 28th.
Farthest away sounds — hum of the ebb and flow of traffic, the occasional siren, shuffling of speigel seats.
Medium sounds — clinking of bri’s dog’s collar, typing of Sfab rep computers.
Closest sounds — me adjusting in my chair, people talking behind me, professors answering questions, ice shifting in my plastic dunkin cup.
Sound level – mostly silent on the background noise except for the occasional shifting of people in audience or on stage. Focused in on the conversation and dialogue happening.
One word – productive
Most important sounds – the professors speaking, audience members speaking, typing of SFAB computers.
Date: 4/28
Location: Content Suite in LHCOMM
Far Sounds: Door opening and closing, people walking in and out, people talking about a group project
Medium Sounds: AC/Patching station, fans going
Close Sounds: People typing on keyboards, someone on the phone
Sound Description/Level: The room is big and industrial sounding, so the sound echos with relative ease
One Word: Corporate
Most Important Sounds: People talking, people typing/working at computers
Location: My room
Farthest Sound: Hum of cars on the turnpike
Medium sounds: Wind outside my window, cars speeding down my street, electric guitar playing in the basement
closest sounds: Vacuum outside my door, the show playing on my tv, typing noises
Sound level is high and very busy, lots of separate loud noises going on
Description: jumbled
Most Important sounds: Wind, vacuum, tv show
1- Backyard of off campus home, 12:06pm, 04/14/2023
2- farthest away sounds – car driving by, ambulance siren, different car starting, honking, airplane above, hum of traffic on a nearby street
3- medium range – chorus of birds chirping, air conditioning whirl, rustling of bushes, distant voices from inside the house and the next door backyard, car alarm
4- closest sounds – my sniffles (allergy season is upon us), the tapping and swishing of my metal straw against the metal coffee cup, buzzing of bees, tapping of foot on bench
5- it is relatively noise provoking, considering its generally calm demeanor. Lot of random noises coming together to really create the soundscape.
6- lively
7- birds chirping, metal straw, buzzing of bees
Date: 4/13
Location: LHComm classroom
Far Sounds: Professor talking through the wall
Medium Sounds: people shifting in their seats, sniffling, feet shuffling on the ground, people typing on laptops
Close Sounds: Professor reading a text, people breathing behind me
Sound Description/Level: relatively low, nothing too loud or overbearing, just a Professor reading to his class, and them listening
One Word: studious
Most Important Sounds: Professor reading