Sound Journal #2

Thursday, February 7, 2019 6:30 pm Kitchen, Vanderpoel Hall

-Far: sirens

-Medium: wind against the building, people talking in the lounge, indistinct television noise

-Close: radiator running, someone typing at the kitchen table, tap running, water boiling

-Sound Level: medium, there’s sound all over the place, from all sides, but it doesn’t feel oppressive

-One Word: lively

-Essential Sounds: people talking, water boiling, television in the background

Sound Observation #2

  1. 2/5/19 at 6:30am; My Bedroom
  2. Farthest: Cars, main road
  3. Medium: The wind through my window, my mother making breakfast, my hot water boiling (for my French Press)
  4. Close: Birds, Music playing off my computer, my breathing
  5. Sound Level: Low: Most noise that I could hear, or was paying attention to was in my room or right outside my window
  6. One word: Tranquil
  7. Essential sounds: Music, breakfast, Water Boiling

Journal Entry 2- Kevin O’Keefe

2/7/2019; 1:00 A.M.; Bedroom

Farthest Sounds: Distant cars, sirens, planes

Medium sounds: The wind, the window blind blowing in the wind and hitting the window

Closest sounds: Snoring, door creaking due to wind passing through room, radiator clanging.

General sound level: quiet to a point that rides the line of calm and eerie

One word: suspicious

Essential Sounds: sirens, wind, creaking door

Journal Entry 2

  1. January 7, 5:54 pm, Stuyvesant Hall
  2. Farthest: cars passing, people talking & laughing, water trickling
  3. Medium: heater buzzing/humming, phone vibration against a table, occasional car horns
  4. Closest: keyboard keys clacking, metal binder opening and closing, sheets rustling
  5. Sound level: low-medium
  6. Productive
  7. Essential sounds: keyboard clacking, cars passing, binder opening and closing