Location: Starbucks
Sounds: People talking, music playing over speakers, straw wrapper rustling, footsteps, faint sound of coffee machines, beeping at register, drink being set down
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Journal Entry #2
1- February 21, 2024. Starbucks in Student center at 8:51 am
2- Chairs moving, keys jingling, someone talking in a high-pitched voice to a dog
3- Starbucks workers talking, customer talking in Spanish to another worker, footsteps
4- Music from speaker, buzz from speaker, soft conversations at tables, a drink with ice being made
5- Medium
6- Human
7- Music, people talking, drinks being made
Journal Entry #2
2/22/24 – 12:51PM – The Student Center
Sounds farthest from me: People talking at different volumes across the Student Center, the workers making drinks, kitchen noises from other food places.
Sounds at a medium range from me: The music playing from the speakers, chairs moving, wrappers crinkling.
Closest to me: My friends’ conversation, keyboard clacking, my friend’s jewelry clanking as she writes.
Sound level: The sound level is medium to high – there is a lot of high volume volumes happening around. There are a lot of people at the Student Center at common hour all talking loudly. The metal dishes at Starbucks are loud as well.
Sound activity: There is a lot of sound activity. There is a lot of people talking and a lot of general physical activity happening that creates a lot of noise.
One work description for the sound environment: Noisy
Three sounds that are essential to the sound environment: Starbucks noises, my friends talking, music playing in Starbucks.
Field Recording 2 – Michelle Pavloff
Location: Table at Starbucks in the Student Center, 12:46 pm
Sounds Heard:
- “The Greatest” by Sia playing
- Avery (who gave permission to be recorded) singing/humming/and scatting along to the song
- Avery talking
- Chairs moving
- Food being unwrapped
- Keys clanging on a table nearby
- Muffled talking and laughing of people in the student center
- Beeping of Starbucks microwave
- People talking at the table next to us
Field Recording #5 – Ash Boone
The balcony of the student center at around 6:30pm. Music blasting from the Starbucks speakers right below us as my friends and I eat and watch the last scene of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.
Field Recording #6
Starbucks in Westbury, NY.
Door opening/closing, people inside store talking, background music playing, and a microwave beep.
Journal Entry #2 – Brennan
When & Where: 02/09/2020 6:02pm Balcony above the Student Center Starbucks
Far Sounds: A Heavy door slamming shut occasionally, Chatter of dozens of people eating, music
Medium Sounds: People ordering coffee, Baristas, latte machines, ice being served and poured, a cash register printing receipts, a blender
Close Sounds: keys jingling, footsteps, keystrokes on a laptop a few seats away,
General Level: loud
One-word Description: Bustling
Essential Three Sounds: Baristas, tons of dinner time chatter, distant music
(my apologies for the late post — I just forgot about the assignment until last night)
Field Recording #10
4/26/2016, 5:32pm, SC in front of Starbucks
Sounds heard: laughter, chatting, random conversation,
Field Recording #1: Starbucks in Penn Station
Waiting for my caffe mocha at Starbucks before city class on Saturday. Milk being steamed, coffee being poured, people chattering away, and announcements for the LIRR heard in the distance. Dirty, pretty, New York City!
Field Recording #3
Location: Starbucks on Hempstead Turnpike
Sounds Heard: You can hear the sound of music coming through the speakers above my head, the sounds of conversation among the patrons and you can hear the sound of the barista calling out drink orders.