1- 3/3/12 – 8:00pm – Bill of Rights RA Office
2- Front door opening, card swipe beep, turnstile turning
3- Elevator door opening/closing, people talking, mall boxes opening
4- RA’s talking, music playing quietly
5- The general sound level is medium and amount of sound activity is medium as well, not loud for a small room but not quiet at all.
6- Boisterous
7- People talking, card swipe beep, elevator door opening/closing
Sound Observation 5 – KAPSLAP (MASHUPS FOR RAGING WITH RECREATIONAL CHEMISTRY)
– Date/Time/Location
– February 24, 2012 / 10:00pm / KAPSLAP SHOW AT HOFSTRA/ Hofstra USA
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
– The sound of people moving around me, yelling, talking loudly, or cheering. THE MUSIC
3- Identify and list the sounds at medium range from you.
– The sound of the music : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfFwYmZrJTw&feature=related
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
– The music completely, and my breath slightly after a lot of jumping or dancing.
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
– EXTREMELY LOUD MUSIC, some people even wear ear plugs. The sound is so loud it completely envelops you.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
– EXPLOSIVE
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
– Bass drops, Electronic Sounds, Crowd Cheering
3/1/2012, My Dorm Room, 11:13 pm
– Sit, close eyes and allow the sounds around you to envelope you, listen for all of the sound in your environment.
2-the boys in the courtyard yelling
3- my roommate flipping through her books while she works on her homework
4- my boyfriend’s fingers tapping away on a game on his iPhone
5-it is very calm and relaxing for a Thursday night
6- serene
7- the whir of the computer is essential to a peaceful night in my dorm room. the next important sound is my roommate doing her homework. and of course, what Thursday night would it be if boys weren’t shouting in the courtyard, muffled by the closed window.
1. Thursday March 1st in the Health and Wellness Center waiting room at 1pm
2. The sounds furthest away from me are people talking otuside the health and wellness center’s building and people talking in the hall of where all the patiences’ rooms are located.
3. The sounds that are at medium range to me are a woman typing on her computer, another woman is flipping through files, and two other people are whispering behind the reception desk.
4. The sounds that are closest to me are a girl coughing in the waiting room, a guy is talking to a woman at the reception desk, and the girl to the other side of me is flipping through pages of her magazine.
5. There is not much going on in the waiting room because of the fact that it is a doctors office. The office is quiet for the most part, with little going on.
6. “mellow”
7. The coughing in the waiting room, the guy talking to the woman at the receptionist’s desk, and the flipping pages of a magazine. This really gives the room the feel of a doctor’s office and those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment.
Date: March 1, 2012
Time: 9:00pm
Location: My dressing room in the Playhouse.
Farthest sounds: People talking in the greenroom, footsteps, music from other dressing rooms
Medium sounds: The show over the intercom, the audience laughing, and doors opening and closing.
Closest Sounds: Typing, hangers clanging, the other girls in my dressing room changing.
General Sounds: Soft but chaotic
Environment: Busy
3 Sounds: The show playing over an intercom, doors opening and closing, hangers clanging together.
2012-02-25 – 3:55 PM
Tech Rehearsal for Much Ado About Nothing
2- blowing of the fans in the building, actors on stage.
3-Sound designers talking behind me, flute and piano on the speakers.
4- Bryan and Jean talking, Bryan typing on the light board, somebody tapping their foot
5- Sometimes it’s rather quiet as people speak in low voices, other times Jean and Athena pierce the silence with a sharp cry. The music (when leveled correctly) is not too loud (as the shouts can be) and the actors are (usually) easy enough to understand as they project from the stage.
6- Theatrical
7- Brian tying, Athena and Jean shouting, Flute/Piano coming on and off.
1. February 24, 2012 at 11:00pm, inside a stuffed car
2. Cars passing by.
3. Air blowing against the car, the sound of the tires against the asphalt, the engine running.
4. Female voices talking over each other, my own voice, the radio.
5. The environment is very busy with conversation and music, with a very constant smooth background of the road and tires and blowing air.
6. Return
7. The female voices, the radio, and the sound of tires on the ground.
Date, Time, Location: Friday February 24h, 2012; 706AMish, 24 bagel and deli
Farthest Sounds: banging of pots and pans, oven door slamming
Medium Range Sounds: knives against cutting board, tears of foil and wax paper
Closets Sounds: cash register key and receipt paper
Sound Activity (Amount/Level): medium volume
Descriptive Word: Busy
Essential Sounds: Knives against bagels/cutting board, cash register keys, oven door slamming
Sound Environment Observation 4 – The Hofstra Gym – Running on a Treadmill
1- Date/Time/Location
– February 23, 2012 / 5:00pm / Running on a Treadmill / Hofstra Gym
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
– Other gym machines, people using other machines, the distant sound of people talking, the sound of people’s feet on the track around the work-out-machine area.
3- Identify and list the sounds at medium range from you.
– The people running on the treadmills on either side of mine… along with the sound of the surrounding Elliptical machines swishing back and forth.
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
– Some music (Belanova) playing on my Ipod… the sound of my heavy breathing along with my feet on the treadmill. Also, the HUGE guy next to me on the treadmill is running hard and thumping his feet very loudly.
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
– It is a very busy sound environment. There is noise coming from all around – between the machines and other people’s ipods and heavy cardio breathing.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
– Enthusiastic
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
– The sound of the machines, heavy breathing, I-pod noises, Elliptical swishing
