Recording and Location Description: This was recorded at Pitzer, during a leisurely time on campus after many students had left for spring break. One can hear birds perhaps most prominently, and I am a bit curious as to what kind they are? At first when listening, I assumed wind had interfered with the clarity of the audio recording, but remembered I was outside a dining hall and the distant hum of mechanical systems may be a more accurate schematic representation. This area of Pitzer is rather open yet other buildings are often in surrounding sight. So, proximity may have added to audibility while diminishing more slowly-building types of reverberation.

Note from the archivist in 2025: There is no placemark (mechanism that puts the sound on the Soundmap on the main page) for this post. In most such cases I’ve been able to figure out where the recording was taken based on the information in the post. This post does not indicate where outside McConnell this was taken, and as it is a large building with multiple entrances, I am deciding not to create a placemark; as each entrance is a unique sonic landscape; and instead I offer you a map of possible locations: