Location: Hofstra USA for Masquerade Ball
Date: 3/5/10
Time: Midnight
1. Doors opening and closing, talking, laughing
2. Music, talking, laughing, singing
3. Chewing, talking, laughing, stomping, humming
4. A very loud sound level and a lot of activity
5. Overwhelming
6. Music, stomping, singing
Locale: Adams Playhouse at 11: 40 p.m. on 3/10/11
Far Sounds: People gasping, chattering, the roof shaking
Medium Sounds: Allie moaning, Chris shouting, Gun shot
Close Sounds: Actors saying “yeah!”, light clapping, people quietly clapping, my breathing, swords clinking
Sound Level: Loud
Sound Description: Intense
Critical Sounds: People Gasping, Gun Shot, Actors saying “yeah!”
March 11, 12:00 AM, Blake Hotel
Far: People laughing, pool balls being hit, murmuring voices
Medium: Air conditioning system, papers being moved at concierge desk, elevator ding
Near: poor quality hotel key board clicking too loudly, squeak of chair swivel
Sound Level: Medium
Sound Quality: Busy
Essential: clicking, elevator ding, laughter
Location: Greenroom of Adams Playhouse, sometime during the run of War of the Roses. March 10th.
Far sounds: Music in dressing rooms, and the voices of other actors also in dressing rooms.
Middle sounds: Sounds from stage: thumping overhead from fighting onstage, and the dialogue coming over the intercom.
Near sounds: occasional footsteps/voices of passing actors, water-fountain running briefly.
General Level: Loud, but muted.
One word: Defined.
Essential sounds: Thumping, intercom, music.
March 10, 2011. 11:50 pm. Nassau Suffolk Hall
Furthest sounds: Hum of the AC, footsteps and door opening in the hall
Medium Sounds: Conan talking, rave music on Conan, people cheering
Closest sounds: keyboard, coughing, sniffling
Sound level: Medium, the TV is somewhat loud but I am the only person in the room
Homey- I close my eyes and it reminds me of being home and having the TV on with my parents
Conan talking, rave music, coughing
1- 3/10/2011 11:40 AM Parking Lot 2C (in front of Weller hall)
– Sit, close eyes and allow the sounds around you to envelope you, listen for all of the sound in your environment.
2- Airplanes overhead, That siren sound from the Uniondale Fire Department
3- Cars on california ave, Scattered on campus conversation, wind rustling the trees
4- Idling car in front of me, My breathing, my radio in my pocket
5- Lots of sound activity, but few overbearing sounds. High-medium sound level.
6- Business as usual
7- Idling car, my radio, the siren
1- 3/9/11 Adams Playhouse 7 pm.
2- Slight sound of wind outside, people talking backstage.
3- Fight Call onstage, people talking in the audience.
4- My own breathing, a slight crackle through the speakers.
5- Loud, banging from fight call, people yelling to each other.
6- Chaotic.
7- Swords banging, people yelling back and forth, a slight crackle through the speakers.
1) 3/10/11-2:45 p.m.-Hammer Lab
2) The sounds furthest away from me included the hum of the printers, the squeak of the printers
as they printed paper, creaking of the door opening and closing, a beep sound as people swiped
into the lab, a janitor emptying a trash can and slamming it back on the ground, someone using a
stapler, and student employees talking to each other behind the desk.
3) The sounds in medium range from me included fingers typing on computer keyboards, chirp
of someone’s phone receiving a text, car keys hitting the tabletop, jackets rustling, footsteps, and
coughing.
4) My knuckles cracking, my fingers typing on the keyboard, the knob on my mouse grinding as
it scrolled, and my mouse sliding across the table would be considered sounds closest to me.
5) The sound level was low because people were concentrating on their work. The lab is usually
a very quiet place. There were sounds coming from many sources, but many of the sounds were almost inaudible.
6) Meek
7) The hum and squeak of the printers, typing on computer keyboards, and the beep of the swipe
into the lab.
1) 03/09/11, 10:15 AM, student center parking lot
2) male and female voices, another girl’s heels clicking against the pavement, wheels of a skateboard rolling by
3) leaves rustling and blowing by in the wind
4) the wind blowing, my own footsteps, my keys jingling
5) The sound level is low. The voices are yelling but sound distant and soft (they’re far away).
6) relaxed
7) the wind, my own footsteps, male/female voices
DATE-TIME-LOCATION: 3/7/11; 8:45AM; southbound on Unispan
FARTHEST SOUNDS: sliding door, beeping, metal clanking
MEDIUM SOUNDS: cars moving
NEAR SOUNDS: music from another person’s headphones, shoes
SOUND LEVEL: low
SOUND ENVIRONMENT: walkway
ESSENTIAL SOUNDS: cars moving, shoes, sliding door