Time: 7 pm
Place: Shapiro Hall, outside the black box
Recognizable Sounds: Air conditioner, distant conversation downstairs, footsteps, distant beeping, intercom noises.
Tag Archives: Ellie Mason
Journal 7
04/23/26
Captain’s Field, 6 pm
Farthest: Cars driving past, audience shouting, cheering
Medium: flag football players running, ref yelling, whistles
Close: team members cheering, speaker playing music
Sound Level: Loud
Description: Excited anticipation
Essential sounds: Cheering, audience shouting, players running, whistles, speakers playing music, team members cheering
04/17 Field Recording
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Location: Living Room in Queens
Date: 04/17/26
Recognizable sounds: Oven beeping, AC white noise, distant traffic when the door is opened, door opening and closing, voices, clothing shuffling, floors squeaking above, footsteps
Sound Journal 04/10/26
April 10th, 2026 – Queens Neighborhood
Furthest Sounds – Planes overhead, cars in the distance driving past, people arguing out on the sidewalk
Medium Sounds – Tripod click, lights humming overhead, neighbors upstairs running and yelling
Closest Sounds – Actors running lines, slate clicking, oven beeping
Sound levels were quite loud overall, the house echoes relatively heavily and everything is relatively close by
Rhythmic
Necessary Sounds – People arguing outside, cars, neighbors upstairs, actors running lines
Field Recording 4
04/03/26
Location: Livingroom
Recognizable Sounds: Kit-Cat Klock tail swinging, cat purring, distant planes, distant cars, Podcast playing inside a different room, wind against the window, cat kneading into blanket.
Journal Entry #4
Parking Lot behind the SIC
11:30pm, 03/27,26
Furthest: A house blasting music but only the bass can be heard, people walking to parties shrieking, a mourning dove call, airplanes passing, cars revving past.
Medium: Ambulance sirens as they pull out of the station, fire truck sirens, hushed talking, footsteps
Closest: Car running, breath, mixer beeps
Sound level: Medium level of noise constantly, sometimes gets louder but never quieter.
Description: Rough
Necessary Sounds: Ambulances, cars passing, car engine running, the house playing bass music
Field Recording 3
Location: Upstate New York film set, large room
Time: 3:30pm, 3/12/26
Recognizable Sounds: Guitar, feet tapping, conversation, laughter, snapping.
Journal Entry #3
Time: 10:30 am
Place: Corner of Broadfield and Jane st
Close sounds: A mourning dove overhead, a squirrel rustling leaves across dry grass
Medium Sounds: a neighbor using an impact driver, music playing from my roommate’s window out onto the street (the heavy louder than the rest of the song)
Faraway sounds: Cars revving on Hempstead turnpike, planes overhead every once in a while, sirens, car horns honking, wind.
Sound Level: The majority of the sounds are low, bass-heavy hums, however the mourning dove is at a medium level, and the impact driver is very loud.
One Word Description: Rhythmic
Essential Sounds: Mourning dove, impact driver, cars on the turnpike, and roommate’s music.
Field Recording 3
Time/Place: 2/26/26, Inside car outside of HofUSA
Identifiable Sounds: Key clicking, 4 doors opening, bodies sitting, car dinging, engine revving, heat begins blowing, 4 seatbelts click. Noticable shift in space when going from outside the car to inside.
Journal Entry 2
Time: 2/19/26, 12:30pm
Place: Bits & Bytes
Identifiable Sounds: A door to the far right that creaks when it closes, a smoothie blender blending what sounds like ice, layered conversations, laughter, a woman on the phone having a conversation in Spanish, beep of a scanner, tongs tapping against counter, crinkling of paper as it’s thrown away, typing on a laptop keyboard, footsteps passing by every so often, foosteps upstairs making a low thud, metallic clinking as backpacks are picked up, backpacks zipping closed or open, keys jingling as people step.