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.
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Field Recording 4
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
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
Identify the location:
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.
Field Recording 3
Field Recording #3
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.”
Field Recording 2
Field Recording #2
Location: Sushi Ya Restaurant, Garden City, New York — February 14, 2013, 10:14 pm
Sounds heard: general “happy human” sounds, i.e. a euphony of lovebirds chatting in the small room, with the exception of the couple at the table next to ours, who can be heard bickering (“I’m not shallows, don’t call me shallow.”) Stephen and I tease each other with phony, hackneyed expressions of love (“Your eyes are like limpid pools of…”) At one point, Stephen begins explaining to me the concept of moshing at a concert, and two waiters can be heard nearby speaking a foreign language to one another.