Location: Vander Poel Parking Lot (10:00 pm Thursday, February 6th)
Sounds Heard: Me stomping through the frozen parking lot and getting into my little Ford Fusion. Featured sounds: My boots crunching through the icy surface of the snow, keys, car door opening and closing, the seat belt reminder, my seat belt buckling, engine starting, radio turning on.
Location: Quad outside Emily Lowe.
Sounds Heard: My footsteps through think icy snow.
Identify the location:
Barnes and Noble cafe.
Identify the sounds:
You can hear a squeak as the book cart rolls in the distance,then you hear someone’s cellphone ring. You can hear a click on the trackpad of a laptop, and people talking in the background. You can also hear indistinct music playing in the background. Then typing on a lap top, which eventually becomes more rapid and dominates the recording. Then you hear the squeak of the book cart again, then the beep of a headset, and an employee responding over his headset.
Identify the location:
History 107, Breslin 216
Identify the sounds:
Well, because this class is Medieval Europe, my professor (Doubleday) likes to play medieval music while we work on group projects. So you can hear him speak about the project, and then you can hear the music come in. You can hear someone discussing what she wants to do, a page turn, miscellaneous background noise, someone coughing, and more people in the class discuss the project. After the professor stops speaking, you can hear more people start to discuss. I decided to record this because I always find that the music he plays is fun, and creates a nice atmosphere for the discussions among groups. I also like his accent and the fact that there is a lot going in on this clip, but you can still focus in and hear him speak, or the music, or the girl next to me speaking, or the background noises; whichever you choose to focus on can be heard clearly and distinctly despite all the other noises simultaneously going on.
Identify the location:
Yankee Stadium, Yankees Vs. Red Sox, Third game of the season
Identify the sounds:
You hear dull clapping and cheering, which suddenly intensified and is joined by screams. Immediately following that is the classic, “The Yankees Win,” announcement, which, of course, is followed by Sinatra’s famous New York, New York. You can also hear my mom singing along to the song and people talking and singing in the background.
Cafe On The Quad, Monday, 10:55 a.m.
I hear Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” on the sound system, a group of guys talking, drinks made on the espresso machine, me putting my drink down by my computer, and me tearing the wrapper off a package of Reese’s peanut butter cups. I’m glad I got the recording when I did, because shortly after “Smooth Criminal” came on, a rather bad dub step mixed song featuring Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj came on.
