Location: Miami Airport
Sounds: Families talking to each other, Shoes squeaking against the floor, worker’s radio receiving a message, music lightly playing over the loudspeakers
Tag Archives: background music
Journal Entry 4
- Time and Place: Target, 4:03pm, 3/27
- Farthest: digital beeping from checkout
- Medium: chatter and footsteps
- Closest: music playing over speakers
- Sound Level/Activity: The sound level changes intermittently from medium to loud, changing as you move throughout the location
- Description: predictable, cyclic
- Essential: beeping and chatter
Field Recording #3
Location: Americano Pizza Shop in Syosset
Sounds: Obnoxious music, Woman ahead of me and the cashier taking her order (for way too long), Feet squeaking against the floor, pans being moved around the kitchen.
Field Recording #1
Time: 2-12-2026, 5:02pm
Location: Medayork, Cuban-American Fast-Food, Westbury NY
Sounds Observed: Latin music, men speaking in Spanish, spatula hitting flat top grill, slight hum from the heater.
Final Field Recording~~~~Kaitlyn Bancroft
Location: Al Hirschfeld Theatre during intermission at a performance of Moulin Rouge
Sounds Heard:
- constant chatter from all directions
- background music from the Moulin Rouge sound track or as learned in this class the “framing effect. “
- announcement bells that intermission is coming to an end and to go back to your seats.