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Field Recording 6
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Identify the location:
The kitchen of my friend’s dorm room late at night.

Identify the sounds:
First, you can hear two people talking about how early they have to get up, their voices fade to the background as we walk past them.  You can hear her hit my phone (my recording device) by accident as she passes me to get to the sink.  You can hear her footsteps, then her pouring out her water bottle in the sink.  It ends with her hitting the water bottle on the side of the sink so she gets all the water out of it.

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Location: Alliance Hall, Room 1111 — March 7, 2013, 2:17 am

 

Sounds Heard:  I was originally going to upload a different recording for this week, but I had a conversation with my friend Morgan in (which she showed a home video of herself singing in a church choir when she was eight) that was too good to pass up.  I usually don’t consider voices a top choice for my Field Recordings, as it doesn’t feel like as much of a discovery to just record someone talking.  But Morgan has such a dynamic voice, and my interest was piqued by hearing her echo the sounds in the video and imitate her own thick, Appalachian accent.

The video itself can be heard initially, followed by giggles and chatter about the video, as well as Morgan’s stellar impression of herself, which I ask her to repeat.  My boyfriend Steve chimes in when Morgan shows a video of herself dancing in another home video — he comments that she looks like both Mary Kate AND Ashley Olsen.

Field Recording 5
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Identify the location:
In the car with a few of my friends (if your volume is up, you might want to turn it down, because my friends are loud).

Identify the sounds:
I started the recording after they were belting out the verses, during the guitar break.  They were joking about singing it and, “being off,” and then started singing again.  In the beginning of the recording you can hear one of my friends keys jangling as she claps her hands.  You can hear me laughing as they sing, and you can hear them laughing as well.  One of them starts to sing the guitar part at one point.  At the end, you can hear all of us laughing as the song ends and the radio announcer comes back on.
I like this recording because I feel like you can hear the smiles on everyone’s faces, and tell no one is trying to impress anyone else.  It’s just three girls being themselves and having fun.

Field Recording 5
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I was eating lunch with my friends Adil and Tori, and I knew Adil could do a great dub step noise. He told us it’s a combination of Kargyraa throat singing and simultaneous beat boxing. I convinced him to let Tori and I record a sample of it. The noises heard are Adil’s dub step sounds, his explanation of it, Tori’s enthusiasm from it, and my affirmation of how cool Adil is.

Field Recording 4
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Identify the location:
On a train going to Penn Station.

Identify the sounds:
I know I’ve already done a train post of two girls having an interesting conversation; however, the squeaking of the train car was too good for me to pass up recording.
The squeaky car dominates the recording, the sound seeming to be crescendoing towards the end of the recording, and at one point you can even hear what sounds like the train car, itself, shaking.  but you can also hear what sounds like a young boy moaning (“Oh, man,”), and a plain going overhead.  You can feel the train shaking just by hearing it.

Field Recording #4
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Location: Social Sports Kitchen — February 17, 2013, 6:33 pm

Sounds Heard: I am taking a lap around the interior of the restaurant/sports bar in which I work, starting first in the dining room, in which the raucous voices of the men who decided to stay and get drunk after the Hofstra Wrestling Team’s Poker Tournament can be heard cheering and carrying on loudly.  About halfway through the sound bite, my shoes can be heard on the wooden floor, as the noise dies down abruptly with my transition into the kitchen (the door of which can be heard).  I make my way past Elvis, the bar back, (apologizing for getting in his way) as a kitchen staff member moves a rack of clean silverware.  I complete my loop by pushing through a swinging door and reentering the main room of the bar, at which point the inebriated patrons can be heard once again.

Field Recording 3
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13th floor kitchen in Vander Poel Hall

Identify the sounds:

Two guys and two girls (one of them me) laughing and talking about how to guilt future generations (or just any potential children we’d have) and how to explain our methods of guilting to them. At one point one of the guys makes an observation that jokes are funny because there’s nothing funny about them, we just perceive them as funny.

 

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Field Recording #3
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Location:  Outside Alliance Hall — February 18, 2013, 2:05 pm

 

Sounds heard: A fire alarm has just started going off inside the dormitory, and I am standing outside in the crowd of displaced students, some of whom can be heard at the beginning of the sound bite making light-hearted conversation about classes.  At times, the blaring of the alarm can be heard only faintly, but the doors to the building sporadically open to admit firefighters and public safety officers, at which point the alarm becomes much louder.  The final sound is that of the wind blowing against the building, as the plateau outside Alliance Hall functions as a fairly strong wind tunnel.  At the end of the sound bite, one student can be heard asking if another is “ok,” to which his comrade responds, “Yeah, I’m just cold.”