upper deck of student center study area (5/5/23)
sounds heard: misc. chatter and laughter, chairs scraping ground, the water pressurizer from the starbucks barista, faint phone alarm

upper deck of student center study area (5/5/23)
sounds heard: misc. chatter and laughter, chairs scraping ground, the water pressurizer from the starbucks barista, faint phone alarm
Hofstra Unispan
Sounds Heard: My footsteps, my breathing, the echo of people talking, plastic keychain clacking, music from Brooklyn Slice,
Location: outside Emily lowe hall
Sound: door opening, gardeners, birds tweeting
Location: My living room 4/29/2023
Farthest sound: Cars driving in the rain on the turnpike, Wind
Medium Sounds: Trees rustling in the breeze, car going down my street
Closest sounds: Front storm door hitting the railing of our porch in the wind. My roommates talking, jazz music playing from Sean’s phone, Betty (cat) meowing
Sound level Medium amounts of sound. not loud, but there are very specific key sounds
Description: Serene
Key Sounds: Betty meowing, Jazz from Sean’s phone, roommate conversation
Date: 4/25/23
Location: Citi Field
Far sounds: cheering & shouting from opposite side of stadium
Medium sounds: clapping and cheering from sections around us, the bat hitting the ball
Close sounds: roommate making comments next to me, people speaking French behind me, the loudspeaker anytime anything happens
Sound description/level: loud and passionate and full of a low level of anticipatory chatter punctuated by cheers
One word: lively
Most important sounds (three sounds that make the scene what it is): clapping, cheering, baseball hitting bat
April 28th, 10:33pm – my dorm with the door cracked
Farthest Away: Car vrooming down a street (barely audible), Plane flying overhead
Medium Range: Toilet Flushing, The sound of my roommate’s phone playing a tv show, the paper towel dispenser on the other side of my wall
Closest: Hum of the refrigerator, My roommate moving around the dorm packing, My roommate opening and closing her drawers
Sound Level: A medium level excluding farthest away sounds. Medium and Close range were often in a battle trying to be heard over the other.
Sound Activity: Inconsistent. It often felt like once one sound came in, they all tried to happen at once, then once one stopped they all stopped. My roommate was also not consistently moving around, she would stop in a spot to contemplate what she wanted to pack. Also, there wasn’t a person in the bathroom who was consistently dispensing paper towels.
Description: Active
Essential Sounds:
1:45pm/ Hofstra’s Child Care Institute (where I work) / April 28th
Farthest sounds: kids and teachers playing outside
Mid sounds: babies crying next door
Closest: sound machine playing white noise for babies nap, one of the kids being fussy
Sound level; quiet
One Word: sleepy
Most important sound: sound machine, babies crying
2:45pm // speigel theater SFAB open forum // April 28th.
Farthest away sounds — hum of the ebb and flow of traffic, the occasional siren, shuffling of speigel seats.
Medium sounds — clinking of bri’s dog’s collar, typing of Sfab rep computers.
Closest sounds — me adjusting in my chair, people talking behind me, professors answering questions, ice shifting in my plastic dunkin cup.
Sound level – mostly silent on the background noise except for the occasional shifting of people in audience or on stage. Focused in on the conversation and dialogue happening.
One word – productive
Most important sounds – the professors speaking, audience members speaking, typing of SFAB computers.
Date: 4/28
Location: Content Suite in LHCOMM
Far Sounds: Door opening and closing, people walking in and out, people talking about a group project
Medium Sounds: AC/Patching station, fans going
Close Sounds: People typing on keyboards, someone on the phone
Sound Description/Level: The room is big and industrial sounding, so the sound echos with relative ease
One Word: Corporate
Most Important Sounds: People talking, people typing/working at computers