Location: Walking outside from library to Bit’s n Bytes.
Sounds heard: Talking, footsteps, police sirens, snow crunching, mild wind.
Journal Entry #4 – Chris Z
2/21/19, 4:06pm, Vander Poel Hall 3rd Floor
Sounds farthest away: People talking, small scratches (I think from the elevator), a sink running
Medium-distance sounds: Keys rustling, air conditioner/heat whirring
Close-range sounds: Elevator dinging, doors closing and clicking shut.
General sound level is pretty quiet, low amount of sound activity with periodic bursts.
One-Word description: Calm
3 essential sounds: Air conditioner/heat, people talking, elevator dinging
Field Recording 3
Location: Penn Station, subway track for Uptown 1
Sounds: Many people talking, train against rails, beeping, squeaking breaks, subway intercom, people yelling
Sound Observation #3
- 2/10/19 at 6:00am Pennsylvania House (walking the dog)
- Farthest: Wind
- Medium: Birds
- Close: My foot steps, my breathing, my thoughts, the dogs foot steps
- Sound Level: Extremely low. There was no noise besides myself.
- One word: Alone
- Essential sounds: My thoughts
Journal Entry 3
Location: outside Stuyvesant Hall, February 14th, 9 pm
Farthest: cars passing, mechanical humming, some talking and laughing
Medium: train horn, police sirens
Closest: people talking, car horn, car engine revving, tires on pavement with rocks, sliding door opening and closing
Sound Level: low
Description: disruptive
Essential sounds: cars passing, door opening, train horn
Field Recording 2
Location: Nethispan, 8:30 am
Sounds: keys dangling, footsteps, humming of cars passing, a truck engine revving
Field Recording #2 – Michael DeRosa
Location: LIRR Train
Sounds heard: squeaking of the train wheels, conductor announcement, ding dong noise, cough, rustling of coats/bags, train accelerating
Journal Entry #3 – Michael DeRosa
- Location: 2/14/19, 6:30pm, Student Center
- Farthest Sounds: beeping sounds from kiosks, food workers talking, coffee machine at Starbucks, footsteps
- Medium sounds: forks/silverware being dispensed, people in conversation, laughter, metal chairs moving
- Closest sounds: fizz of soda inside bottle, music playing through headphones, people eating their food near me, backpacks unzipping, person speaking on the phone
- The sound level is medium, it’s the dinner hour so more people are coming into the student center to get food and meet up with friends
- One word description: casual
- Three essential sounds: kiosk beeping, food workers talking, metal chairs moving
Chris Z Field Recording #2
Location: Student Center, in line at Freshens.
Sounds heard: People talking, footsteps, card machines beeping, yawning, a cart rolling by.
Journal Entry #3 – Chris Zalewski
2/13/19, 9:19 PM, Hofstra USA (Note: Was written on paper, later put into computer)
Sounds Farthest Away: Trash being thrown away, mild footsteps.
Sounds Medium Range: People chatting at tables, shuffling of feet.
Sounds Close Range: People performing, people laughing, TV blaring.
The general sound level is high, large level of sound activity.
One-word Description: Raucous.
Three Essential Sounds: TV blaring, people performing, people laughing.