Posts Tagged ‘student center’

  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

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

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

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

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.

 

Listen to

Location: Student Center Cafe by the Sandwich Station (6:15pm-ish. Prime Dinner Time Rush)

Sounds: Lots of people talking, the loud bumps you hear are myself and someone else tapping our fingers/beverages near the recording device, someone saying “hello” to me and my response, laughing

Listen to

Student Center, 7:50 pm, March 14.

People talking, automatic sliding doors opening and closing, footsteps, wind.

Listen to

Student Center Cafeteria, 2/21/13 7:40 p.m

The sounds of boys talking, people ordering food

1:  Thursday, February 14, 2013, 6:14 pm, Hofstra Student Center

 

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

The sound of over a hundred voices bounces around the high-ceilinged, hard-surfaced space, making any sound beyond the room in which I sit completely inaudible over the din.  At its farthest, the sound of voices constitutes more a continuous, singular noise than a collective of individual voices – a humming, steady roar.

 

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

At my table, several people eat their food in solitude, sitting rather close to me on all sides because of the way the seats are configured around the table.  The sound of plastic forks and knives scratching against the cardboard of their to-go boxes makes a cacophony of irksome scratching noises.  One girl sits close enough to me that I can hear the wet, tearing sound that her soda makes when she sucks it violently through her gnawed, spit-covered straw, as well as the smacking of her lips as she eats her pasta.    Without such proximity, I would not be able to hear anything from my fellow diners.  After all, I can hear very few individual noises from the next table over, due to the general noise level in the dining area.

 

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

On my laptop, I am live-streaming the audio from a show in Boston’s Café 939, via Birncore.com.  I can hear the noises in this venue in Boston: I can hear glasses clinking, peals of giddy laughter, and the three male musicians tuning their guitars and making Valentine’s-related jokes to their largely female and thusly doting audience.   With no visual knowledge of the inside of the space, it’s a strange experience to be able to hear so vividly so finite moment and so intimate an environment, as it exists miles away from and yet simultaneous to all the hubbub in the student center.  Such an overlap is the closest thing one can get to a concrete experience of the multiverse.

 

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

Many individual sounds can be heard, but the general racket begins to sound very monotonous the more I sit in it.  Again, the overall noises level is quite high.

 

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

“Rambunctious”

 

7: Select and list 3 sounds that are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try and figure out what sounds make up this environment and which of those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment to stay intact.

The audio livestream is interesting, but not necessarily integral to the essence of the space at large.  Much more important is the incessant, buzzy sound of dozens of conversations at once, juxtaposed with the individual sounds of people scraping up their food, as well as the slurping sounds of the girl eating nearest to me.

 

Location: Back of Student Center, during a “Coffee House” style performance series — February 7, 2012, 8:29 pm

Sounds Heard: Aaron playing the acoustic guitar and singing (both amplified), the chatter of students in the dining hall, applause, whooping, and his friend Arianna screaming “Okay, Aaron, I see you!” (to which he replies, “I also see you”), and laughter.

 

Listen to

1. 2/16/12 11:39AM Student Center

2. Chairs siding against the floor, glass plates clinking, murmurs, doors opening and shutting.

3. A gentleman talking at a table close by, the giggling of a girl, the laughing of a guy, hands clapping in what sounds like a handshake, snapping.

4. My soda bubbles fizzing, my phone vibrating, my cough.

5. There is much sound activity occurring, yet the sound level is very low and muffled.  It’s as iff the volume has been turned down on something that should be much louder. It;s almost relaxing.

6. Tranquil.

7. The murmurs, the plates, and the chairs sliding against the floor.

Sound of the Day

5/8/24

Music: Sunshine Mix HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!

Outro SOTD:

 

Current Assignments

5/8/2024

Take the Final exam on Canvas by 5/15/2024, 10am

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5/1/2024

Project 6 DUE on Canvas by the end of the day on Monday 5/6/2024.

Reminder: Class will not meet on Monday 5/6, work on your project.

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