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Journal Entry 2
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Date: February 22 – 2:00pm

Location: My Backyard

 

Far Sounds: bell tolling, planes flying by overhead, incomprehensible music from a car radio down the street.

Medium Sounds: car honking, truck rumbling past, birds calling to one another, cars whooshing by, icy sleet falling.

Close Sounds: keyboard clicks, breathing in and out, sleet hitting the ground, chairs, tables nearby.

Sound Description/Level: as the sound of sleet intensifies, it brings the other sounds in and out of focus. The planes and cars increase in volume as they get closer, then gradually fade away. Every sound seems one-and-done, a little snippet of something new in the world before it disappears again into the wash of sleet falling. 

One Word: transient

Most Important Sounds: sleet, cars driving past, bird calls.

Jornal Entry #1
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February 10th, 1:00am–Estabrook Dorm, 12th Floor

Farthest Away: The sound of cars vrooming a couple streets away.

Medium Range: People screaming outside of HofUSA on their way home from party. The Night Shuttle speeding over speed bumps and the squeak of the breaks as it rolls through a stop sign.

Closest: The cutting in and out sound of my roommate’s phone that’s playing TikToks and the hum of my refrigerator that sits at the foot of my bed.

Sound Level: The sounds in the dorm were quiet and would be drowned out from the voices outside that seemed to echo as they spilled into my dorm.

Sound Activity: The sound was inconsistent and came in loud spirts. There would be random screams that would out of nowhere and then it would go back to the quiet sounds from my roommate’s phone and the refrigerator.

Description: Lively

Essential Sounds:

  • Quiet Phone
  • Drunk Girls’ Screams
  • Night Shuttle’s Squeaking Breaks

 

Sound Journal 6
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Date: 5/17/22

Location and Time: 8:15 pm, my bedroom

Far Sounds: wind, cars driving past, occasional honking, faint crickets

Medium Sounds: distant voices from the living room, tv in the living room, occasional footsteps, occasional stairs creaking

Close Sounds: sniffling, rapid typing, windows rattling with a loud gust of wind, occasional cough

Sound Description/Level: rather quiet, primarily the sounds of working, with the sound of people in the distance

One Word: focused

Sound Journal 5
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Date: 5/17/22

Location and Time: 9:30 pm, the Student Center

Far Sounds: distant metal clanking, far voices, whirring fans

Medium Sounds: sizzling from pans, footsteps, beeping, metal scraping

Close Sounds: clamor of voices, laughing, arguing, complaining, pop music playing

Sound Description/Level: rather chaotic, a mix of different noises that place you firmly in a food court like environment, primarily the sounds of people getting dinner and the sounds of cooking

One Word: cluttered

Sound Journal 4
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1- 4/1/22, 9:20 pm, a college house living room

2- Far Sounds: steady wind, laundry clanging in the basement
3- Medium Sounds: shuffling and shifting on furniture, cars driving by
4- Close Sounds: lo-fi beats, periodic sighing, keyboard clacking, periodic talking about miscellaneous subjects
5- Sound Activity and Level: a low to mid level of sound activity at a low sound level, with the occasional medium spike due to conversations
6- One Word: Focused
7- 3 Essential Sounds: Lo-Fi beats, keyboard clacking, conversations

Journal 2
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Time/Location: Paper Source, 4:00 pm, 2/25/22

Far Sounds: cars driving past, honking, slight wind, light rain

Medium Sounds: construction from next door (muffled banging and screw guns), clacking key boards, boxes scraping over the ground

Close Sounds: miscellaneous customer conversations, loud contemporary pop music, scanner beeping

Sound Description/Level: Quite loud, always slightly overwhelming but just enough to set you on edge, many different kinds of sounds overlapping each other, conversations rise and fall but the music is a steady volume

One Word Description: hectic

Most important sounds: loud pop music, customer conversations, scanner beeping, and scraping boxes

 

Journal Entry 1 (2/11/22)
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Date: February 11th, 2022

Location and Time: Hempstead, NY (home), 1:00 pm

Far Sounds: light wind, occasional car passing, a man’s voice singing casually (muffled)

Medium Sounds: heavy footsteps upstairs, creaking floorboards, doors periodically squeaking, shutting, and clicking, a vacuum running

Close Sounds: voices on zoom, clacking keyboard, whirring computer

Sound Description/Level: relatively quiet, most sounds are only occasional

One Word: domestic

Most Important Sounds: the clacking keyboard, the footsteps, the singing, the voices