1. 3/1/15, 2:00am, Lowe 216
2. Farthest: Custodial staff cleaning
3. Medium: Other students chatting, paintbrushes in water
4. Nearest: History documentary on projector
5. Sound levels are at a constant medium level, occasional new noises of Lowe
6. One word: busy
7. 3 Sounds:
1. 2/25/15, 5:30pm, Adam’s Playhouse
2. Farthest: Sampson and Brian talking on stage, drill coming from the shop
3. Medium: 55 students on break chatting
4. Closest: hum of the rack at FOH, sound effects in headphones
5. Sound levels are at a low level except in my headphones, fluctuating depending on what the 55 crew is doing
6. One word: Mumble
7. 3 Sounds:
4/12/15, 7pm, Theresa Lang Center, Richie Ridge interviewing Kristin Chenoweth as hosted by the SAG Foundation
Farthest: Cars outside, ushers talking outside the room, glasses clinking as wine is poured
Medium: Baby crying a few rows back (ugh), overenthusiastic fan-girls talking about how they’re going to “lose it” when Kristin walks into the room, jazz music playing
Closest: Discussion of the various things my aunt and her friends have seen onstage lately, inept sound operator testing the microphones right in front of us.
Sound remains consistent, no one wants to be perceived as less than polite and cultured (except for that damn crying baby).
One word description: Sophisticated
Three sounds: Jazz music, wine glasses, excited chatter
1- 4/15/15-1:55pm-Lowe 216
2-Wind Outside and stomping downstairs.
3- People watercoloring and moving around at desks across the room.
4- Everyone is listening to Jeremy Jordan and Cheyenne Jackson sing.
5- Medium-Loud
6- Musical
7- Music, People Talking, Stomping Downstairs.
1. 3/20/15 – 2:00pm – backstage for “How the Other Half Loves”
2. Farthest: people whispering, people laughing, prop pieces moving or being dropped
3. Medium: wood creaking, footsteps on a platform, actors speaking lines
4. Closest: actors whispering backstage, tip-toe sounds backstage, clothe hangers clanking
5. The sound level would escalate, decrease, start to increase, and then escalate quickly and sound activity was constant.
6. One Word Description: Comedy
7. Three Sounds: people laughing, actors whispering backstage, actors speaking lines
far sound- walking, mumbles from the crowd,
medium sound- forks and spoons, waiters taking orders, faint music
close sound- friends talking, plates colliding with spoons,
one word- curious
Tuesday 3/24, 11:30am, 7th floor of library
Closest: Girl in neighboring desk turning pages in her textbook, boy a few seats away erasing something rather furiously, me sipping my iced coffee
Medium: Library employee going through an aisle of books about twenty feet away and scanning them (quiet beep), someone trying to muffle their coughing
Farthest: Elevator doors opening, people talking in study rooms
One word: Hushed
3 sounds: pages turning, erasing, muffled coughing
1- 3.26.15-8:55pm-The Booth Theatre, Manhattan
2- I can hear distant speaking as well as the music from the preshow.
3- I can also hear people sitting in their chairs and getting back up.
4- Tanner is speaking to me and the guy next to me is coughing.
5-LOUD and busy!
6- Excitement!
7- Talking, Preshow music, playbills turning
dominant sounds- Professor Kolb, the people sitting behind me, speakers, snapping and applauding
Medium sounds- side commentary, occasional laughter
Far sound- walking on stage or on set, people adjusting in their seats, pages turning
3 Essential Sounds
speaking, occasional laughter, people adjusting in their chairs (shifting)
one word- Simple
1- 3/19/15 – millennium hotel
2- there is the faint sound of a siren from what sounds like a fire
3- I can hear people in the hallways as well as doors opening and closing
4- The hvac is on and there is an occasional cough or sound of movement from other people in the room.
5- Quiet
6- Peaceful
7- hvac, the sounds of the other people in the room, occasional sound from the hallway.
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