Sound Observation #6

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

Journal Entry: 7th floor of the library

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

Sound observation

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

Field Recording: Fitness For Life professor gets mad at high-calorie menus

Anna Holmes and I are in Fitness for Life together, and our professor is a REAL character. Here she is, lecturing to 16 of us (most of us are still asleep since it is 8:20am) about avoiding high-fat, high-calorie meals.

Journal Entry; Symposium

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