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February 18th, 2015 | 
Author: Sound Observation #3
1. 2/18/2015 – 6:00pm – Cutting Fenders for Wheel Space (Working on a Car)
2. farthest: buzz from ceiling light, dog barking inside house, timer ticking for sprinklers
3. medium: small pieces of fender tapping the cement ground, large pieces of plastic fender falling to the ground, tires rolling on cement, hammer hitting car parts, car parts squeaking when moved, metal bolts clanging when tightened or loosened, sawzall cutting into plastic, grunting/cursing
4. closest: nose sniffles from cold air, classic rock playing from a laptop, phone ringing with notifications, coughing
5. sound level varied depending on the tools being used and sound activity was generally medium.
6. one word description: aggressive
7. three sounds: grunting/cursing, sawzall cutting into plastic, buzz from ceiling light
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1- DATE-TIME-LOCATION of the sound environment
>2.21.2014
>1:40 A.M.
>Nassau Room 607A
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
>The shower running in the background. The water sputters every 8-10 seconds. There’s a nice mixture of the soft tapping of the individual droplets and the sloshing splashes of the water that hits the body and falls to the ground.
>My roommate singing that one Avicii song about brothers or something.
>That one Avicii song about brothers or something is playing very very softly, probably because he doesn’t wanna wake the neighbors.
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
>The soft blip-blips of my PC as I sit across the room from it, ignoring the continuous notifications on my game.
>The “whirr” of my PC’s fan, desperately trying to cool a machine that’s put in way too many hours a day.
>The news that’s on in the next room over, something about the olympics.
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
>My two suitemates playing a very intense online game, the sounds are a mixture of grunts, shouts, and the occasional profane exclamations of how “done they are with this motherf**kin’ game.”
>The crashes, explosions, slicing, clashing of metal, lion-like roars, and the occasional “An ally has been slain” from the games they are playing.
>My laptop making ‘boo-dwee’ tones as facebook notifications roll in in the group chat.
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
>The sound level is on the very uncomfortable border between noisy and loud.
>The amount of activity is relatively high, or seemingly so with all the noise coming from the computers.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
>Intense.
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try and figure out what sounds make up this environment and which of those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment to stay intact.
>The noises from the game.
>My suitemates shouting.
>The notifications from my facebook.