Lily Library - Lobby vs Study Room

Creator: 
Gaby Salvatore
Description: 

This is an experiment testing how people change their levels of volume according to the environment that they are in. Here, we discover how people subscribe to a certain set of generally-accepted social guidelines regarding appropriate noise level of a given location. This recording is one example of how sound is incorporated into cultural and social norms. The recording begins in the lobby of Lily Library, and proceeds into one of the study rooms.

Contributor: 
Gaby Salvatore
Format: 
wav
Language: 
English
Type: 
audio, sound study
Date: 
September 11, 2015
Location: 

Duke University, Durham, NC

Subject: 

sound study, library, public, outdoors, volume, campus, silence

Duration: 
00:00:30
Bit Rate/Frequency: 
16bit, 705 kbps