1. Location: Student Center
  2. Farthest: soft ambient music over the loudspeaker
  3. Medium: keys jingling, sneakers squeaking against the floor, salsa music on a portable speaker
  4. Closest: AC unit clanking and chirping overhead, voices speaking
  5. Sound level: Medium
  6. One Word: Variety
  7. Three Sounds: Voices, Salsa music, Sneakers squeaking

Journal Entry

  1. 1/31/16, 10:54 am, Student Center
  2. Farthest: Trucks unloading materials, the truck beeping as it backs up, pots and pans clanking
  3. Medium: A group of girls talking about their wild night, chairs sliding, a man emptying the trash can
  4. Closest: the girl sitting next to me eating cereal, typing on my laptop
  5. Sound level: Medium. There aren’t many people in the dining area but those that are here are quite noisy
  6. One word: lively
  7. 3 Words: trucks, pans, chairs

Field Recording

1) Walk to the Student Center from Dutch Treats, Thursday April 10th, at around 10:45 PM

Audio Player

Sounds Heard: My footsteps, Me opening a bag of cashews, Sniffling, The opening of the two automatic doors in the Student Center, Assorted chatter

Sound Journal #7

1 – 3/11/14 9:30PM- Student Center 

2 – Hip hop music playing
-Yelling across the student center
-Loud singing

-3 – Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
-Girls chatting near me about classes
-Someone yelling free waffles
-Erik asking “What’s happening?”

4 – Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
-Noah saying “sound class recording”
-Automatic doors opening

5 – Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
-This room is extremely loud. Apparently this free waffle event is very exciting because nearly everyone in the room is excited and loud. It is almost deafening.

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

7 – Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
-Hip hop music
-“FREE WAFFLES”
-People yelling

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Location: Student Center Front Dining Room

Sounds Heard: Assorted voices and conversations, Christina talking about how she’s “not snap chatting anymore,” the kid next to us slamming down his salt and pepper,  and then Christina’s plasticware falling out of her hands on to the table, the person next to us talking, me picking my phone off the table.