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Journal 11
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1- Date/Time/Location.
4.17.13/12:00pm/My dorm room

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
Someone speaking obnoxiously loudly in the hallway; they must be walking by because I can hear their voice grow louder, and then fade out.  It sounds like they (or someone they were walking with, perhaps) were swinging their keys back and forth, because I could hear a rhythmic jingling.

3- Identify and list the sounds at medium range from you.
One of my suite mates intermittently yelling and laughing extremely loudly at a television show or movie on her television or computer (which I can also hear, though faintly), another suite mate coughing.

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
Jukebox the Ghost playing from my iPod dock, softly.  The steady drip, drip, drip from my heater into the garbage can placed under it as it hums, wheeze-like (I should really get that fixed…), the squeak of my bed as I shift position.

5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
Medium level and activity.  It’s lower in my room, but it’s certainly higher in my suite mate’s room.

6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
Manifold.

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
Rachelle yelling/laughing at her television, Jukebox the Ghost, and the hum of my heater.

Journal Entry #3
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1) 2/14/13, 10:15am, Dorm Room in Constitution Hall

 

2) Trucks on the road near by, honking, wind blowing through the trees

 

3) Wind rattling the blinds on my window, which is slightly open. Refrigerator humming quietly

 

4) My own typing, breathing

 

5) It is very quiet, but fairly active.

 

6) Tranquil

 

7) Wind, Trucks going by in the distance, rhythm of the window shade tapping

Journal Entry 2
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1. February 7, 8:57 pm, Vander Poel

2. Voices down the hall, occasional wind outside

3. Hum from refrigerator, roommate watching a basketball game on his laptop

4. Keyboard, slippers moving across the floor, fingers tapping

5. Medium. Not intensely loud, but the sounds are present without having to focus on listening for them.

6. Average

7. Voices down the hall, game from roommate’s laptop, keyboard

Journal Entry #1
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1:  Thursday, January 31, 2012, 12:17 pm, 714 Alliance Hall

 

2:  Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.

There’s the distant, tinny beep of a truck backing up somewhere in the sprawl of adjacent parking lots.  There’s also the hissing sound of the wind rioting at upwards of 35 miles an hour, lashing the side of the building and making faint screaming sounds against the seams of my windows.

 

3:  Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.

The boys two doors down have rigged their deadbolt to not lock automatically, so that they don’t have to pay for their misplaced keys.  But they must have left a window open, because their door keeps opening and closing with the tide of air pressure, the now impotent locking mechanism making fluid, metallic clicks as it slides out of its place before the door swishes open and then shut with a heavy thud.  The Resident Assistant on next door in the other direction asks someone on the phone about his “reservation.”

 

4: Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).

My fingers tap percussively on my keyboard; the keys are shallow and make clicks as soft as the exoskeletons of wayward insects, throwing their bodies against a light in a dark room.  My heating unit pushes out air with a constant, fuzzy hum.  I can also hear air hitting the inside of my nose as I inhale sporadically.

 

5: Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.

There is a lot of varied sound outside my room, but none so loud or close that the most minute of sounds cannot be heard in my own room.

 

6: Assign a one-word description to the “sound environment”.

Journal Entry 1
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1. January 31, 7:10 pm, Dorm room
2. Farthest: Turnpike traffic, trees blowing, cars in the parking lot
3. Medium: Voices from down the hall, doors opening and closing, wind outside building
4. Closest: Hum from refrigerator, creak of chair back, chewing
5. Not much activity, low level
6. Stillness
7. Wind, traffic, refrigerator

Journal Entry 1
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1-1/31/13, 12:30 A.M. My dorm room

2- Talking, Noises from pipes

3- Shower running, Sitar playing from an ipod

4- My own breathing, Heater

5- For the most part it was quiet. It was quiet enough to hear my breathing, but every individual sound was loud enough to hear over the others if I concentrated on them. All the sounds were very different, but it did not sound like any of them were in conflict. The sitar was the loudest and most unique sound. The combination of sounds created a calming, laid back atmosphere.

6- Relaxing

7- Sitar, Shower, Heater

Journal Entry #1
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1. 1/28/12, 10:31pm, Constitution Lounge

2. Motorcycle accelerating on the street outside

3. People talking, music playing, doors closing, elevator beeping

4. Water streaming down pipes and gurgling, typing, computer fan, sighing

5. The sound level is generally low to medium low, but there is a large amount of activity.

6. Productive

7. Typing, people talking, doors closing

Sound Observation #1
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1- February 2, 2012, 8:45, Dorm Room – Lieden House- Netherlands North

2- Lots of obnoxious yelling and screaming of male voices

3- Doors opening and closing. A guy is talking on the phone in the hallway

4- The whir of the computer, my suitemates talking and the refrigerator is running, the shower water running.

5- The sound level is extremely loud as quiet have not started yet

6- Rambunctious

7- the obnoxious yelling, doors opening and closing, the sound of the refrigerator running