2/2/2019, 6:13pm, thrift store in Garden City
Far-away sounds: Radio playing music, a bit of coughing, beeps of card reader at checkout.
Medium-range sounds: Footsteps, coat hangers clanking.
Close-range sounds: Clothes rustling from being picked up and thrown about, people talking.
General sound level: Medium high, elevated level of sound activity.
One-Word Description: Bustling
3 essential sounds: Coat hangers, talking, radio playing.
Location: The Cuban, Uniondale, NY, 8:20pm, 4/2/2019
Farthest: receipt printing, food sizzling, water pouring
Medium: glasses clanking, people talking, silverware hitting plates
Closest: plates hitting each other, people talking, Latin music
Sound Level: low-medium
Description: social
Essential Sounds: glasses clanking, people talking, music
Location: LIRR Penn to Mineola, 10:30pm, 3/28/19
Farthest: low humming
Medium: scraping against rails, people talking,
Closest: crashing of tracks and wheels, muffled metal clanging, constant whoosh of wind, air hissing
Sound Level: low-medium
Description: humdrum
Essential Sounds: low humming, people talking, muffled metal clanging
Location: Outside Hofstra Hall
Sounds heard: birds chirping, wind blowing, coughing in the background, footsteps, trees rustling, flag waving in the wind, people screaming and laughing in the distance
Location: On LIRR train to Mineola.
Sounds heard: train running, door closing, footsteps, people talking.
Location: W 73rd and Broadway, NY, 3/16/2019
Sounds: multiple police/firetruck sirens, wind, cars passing, people talking, birds chirping
3/28/19, 11:02AM, quad outside Lowe Hall.
Sounds farthest away: Birds chirping, humming of heater (?).
Sounds at medium range: Wheels of luggage rolling, footsteps.
Close-range sounds: People talking, coughing, laughing.
General sound level: medium, average level of sound activity.
One-word description: Lively.
3 essential sounds: Birds, footsteps, people laughing.
I-95 toward Bridgeport, March 15, 2019, 8 pm
Far: police car with sirens on the other side of the highway
Medium: whoosh as other cars pass
Close: radio in the background (the way words are incomprehensible when you’re not really listening), tires against the road, general hum of the engine
Sound level: relatively high, sound coming from everywhere
One word: moving
Essential sounds: police sirens, radio, engine
Location: Vander Poel laundry room
Sounds heard: Washers running, dryers running, washer door closing, footsteps.