Location: Howard Beach (restaurant called Frenasia) at 9:26pm
Identifiable Sounds: beeping noise from the fridge, music playing in the background, plates being placed on the table, people talking and laughing
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Journal Entry 2
1.Time and Place: Belfast Gastropub, 10pm, 2/21
2.Farthest: glasses clinking against one another, people singing to the music playing, indistinct conversations, people placing orders at the bar,
3.Medium: someone yelling their order to the bartender over the music, heels clicking against the floor of the bar,
4.Closest: Music from Dj blaring, Friends talking next to me, glasses tapping against bar top, shaker from bartender making a cocktail,
5:Sound Level: Extremely loud and noisy
6:Description: crowded
7:Essential: Music from dj, indistinct talking, glassing clinking, shaker from bartender, people singing to music
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.
1st Journal Entry
1- Date, Time, Location: 2/6/26. 7:00pm. Mama Lombardi’s restaurant. Holbrook, NY
2- Far Range– Plates clattering in the kitchen, cutlery clattering into buckets, man yelling in italian, kitchen door being swung open
3- Medium Rage– Jazz music being played, Other tables talking indistinguishably, order being taken from a table, plates being placed onto a table, wooden chairs scraping against the wooden floor, footsteps with different shoes types walking across the floor
4- Close Rage– Fork scraping against plate, Family talking about phone bills, Glasses being picked up and drank from, glasses case being open and closed
5- General sound level– There is a large amount of sound. Constant talking and buzzing of people.
6- One word description– bustling
7- 3 essential sounds-Jazz music being played, Tables talking indistinguishably, forks scraping against plates
Field Recording
3/26/17 2:10 PM Cheesecake Factory in MA
silverware clinking, talking, music
Journal Entry
Location: Panera Bread, Massapequa 5 p.m.
Farthest: Cars driving by outside, Sound of register bells ringing
Medium: Conversations across the room, soda machine dispensing soda
Closest: Friends talking, phones buzzing, silverware clanging against plates
1 word: Bustling
3 Sounds:People talking, Soda Machine, Cash register bell
Field Recording
Location: Cozy Mel’s Restaurant
Sounds heard: Friends talking close by, crowd of restaurant talking, plates and silverware clanking, background music
Field Recording #6
Location: Houlihan’s (the restaurant) in a booth.
Sounds heard in the clip: Eliza is singing along with the music that is playing: Unwritten by Natasha Beddingfield. I am heard saying “Wait for the break” Stefanie says that we need to “get some harmonies in there” and there is general murmur of people talking in the restaurant underneath. Very fun times.
Field Recording #2
Location: Sushi Ya Restaurant, Garden City, New York — February 14, 2013, 10:14 pm
Sounds heard: general “happy human” sounds, i.e. a euphony of lovebirds chatting in the small room, with the exception of the couple at the table next to ours, who can be heard bickering (“I’m not shallows, don’t call me shallow.”) Stephen and I tease each other with phony, hackneyed expressions of love (“Your eyes are like limpid pools of…”) At one point, Stephen begins explaining to me the concept of moshing at a concert, and two waiters can be heard nearby speaking a foreign language to one another.