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March 6th, 2014 | 
Author: 1. ZAT House, 9:21 pm, Thursday, March 6, 2014.
2. Identify the sounds furthest from you: Okay, this is so weird, my house is never this quiet, so despite the fact that I’ve done a sound journal on the everyday noises in my house, I would like to take note of this silence. Right now, the sound furthest from me is the cars as they pass by on Front Street. Now, to give a visual, my room is at the back of the house, furthest from the street, so it’s interesting that I can still hear the very faint sound of cars outside. I also just heard my neighbor’s car door shut. Upstairs, I hear Bonnie, Jenna’s kitten, who is six months old now and has yet to be fixed; she’s in heat. So, naturally, she is meowing up a storm right now, wandering all over the house. This is honestly the loudest sound I hear at the moment. Everything else is still.
3. Identify the sounds at a medium range: With my bedroom door open, I can hear the faint whirring of the refrigerator in the living room and the washing machine at the end of the hall.
4. Identify the sounds closest to you: I guess the cats want to torture me today because as I’m typing this, Bailey, Corinne’s cat, has just jumped onto my bed to lay next to my laptop and watch me type. She is purring with some added pitch. As per usual, my radiator clicks as the heat comes on. There is also a crack in the ceiling, or the floor of the room above me, I guess, which comes standard with any older house that shifts and makes noises.
5. Describe the level of sound activity: Aside from the OBNOXIOUS meowing of Bonnie upstairs — oh, I’m sorry, she’s coming back down here, GREAT — the house is still. The sound activity is very low. Just the radiator and the passing cars and the sound of my typing.
6. A word to describe the sound environment: Still.
7. Three sounds that complete the sound environment:
— The cars passing outside
— Bonnie in heat, meowing nonstop
— The radiator clicking
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So, after several attempts of reaching for my phone over the last week to capture the sound of Jenna’s kitten, Bonnie — who is currently in heat and has yet to be fixed, and who also stops meowing as soon as I grab my phone somehow — this was the best recording I got. It’s so different from a normal meow. It’s deep and desperate and NONSTOP. It’s driving us all crazy, so here you go! Enjoy my nightmare!
1- DATE-TIME-LOCATION
- Friday, February 7th, 2014. 8:42 AM, My living room.
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
• Garbage truck starting and stopping on the next block
• Gentle hum of the wind
• Television coming from another room, set on a very high volume
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
• Foot steps clonking as my neighbors make a mad-dash for the train station.
• The bell on my cat’s collar ringing as he prances around the house
• Cars rushing past behind me
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
• The gentle hum of my laptop
• The bell on my cat’s collar ringing as he prances around the house
• Another cat breathing as she sleeps soundly
• My mother singing Les Mis, horribly.
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
The general sound level is at a medium, half the people in my family are not present- but the loudest two are here. The amount of sound activity is decent, its at this time that the house is quiet enough to hear all the sounds my cats make, which is a lot.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
Free
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
• The television
• The rattling of my cat’s bell collar
• The birds chirping