Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

1. March 1st, 2017, 12:42pm, Outside Emily Lowe
2. Farthest Sounds – Plane flying overhead
3. Medium Sounds – Distant conversations, footsteps, Water bottle crumpling
4. Closest Sounds – Walking up the stairs, doors closing, Will interrupting my Zen
5. Sound Level – Medium
6. Sound Description – Bustling
7. Essential Sounds – Footsteps, Plane, Conversation

1. 4/27/2016, 7:27pm, L216
2. Far: people talking as they go up and down the stairs, laughter
3. Medium: the studio door opening and closing from various people walking in and out
4. Close: music playing from the computer, my own typing
5. Level: Medium
6. One word: Calm
7. 3 sounds: music, studio door, laughter

1. Location: Hotel hallway
2. Sounds: door closing, hum of the AC, vending machine buzzing, ice dropping into a bucket, shoes against carpet, knocking

1. 2/25/16, 2:32 pm, Bits and Bytes
2. Farthest: The door slamming, card swiping,
3. Medium: Trash being thrown away, movie playing on the TV
4. Closest: laptop keys, people talking, music playing, chewing
5. Sound level: Loud
6. One Word: Chaotic
7. 3 sounds: Card swiping, Trash being thrown away, chewing

1 – Date. Time. Place.
>2.27.2014
>7:23p.m. EST
>AT&T Corporate Store, Hempstead

2 – Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
>Car doors slamming in the distance.
>Some guy blasting hard bass rap music in his car.
>The ringing of a bike bell (who even uses those anymore.)

3 – Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
>The faint lobby-like music of the store.
>People murmuring and chatting about phones, and one lady about her dog’s cyst.
>The tick tacking of a keyboard as an employee rings up a customer
>People testing out phones and devices, consistent beeps, boops, and blips.
>This one guy who chews his cereal really loudly.

4 – Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
>My father playing with his new phone. More beeps, boops, and a few bleeps.
>My hiccups that keep cutting off my hearing.
>The shuffle of the receipts in the hands of the representative.
>The chewing man has now walked by me.

5 – Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
>The sound was decently loud, definitely not uncomfortable but it had a full volume.
>The activity can be considered passively busy. There wasn’t anything too bustling about it all but the sounds all combined together made it hard to focus down on one.

6 – Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
-Public.

7 – Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
-The Lobby-like music
-The bleeps and bloops
-The chewing man

Location of clip: The Den, my house.

Sounds heard: Mom flapping a garbage bag, me playing Skyrim and zipping up my backpack, followed by Mom typing quickly on the keyboard. Mom then gets up from her chair with the garbage bag in hand, and leaves while I continue to play the game.

Identify the location of the clip – This recording is taken from the floor just inside the door to my dorm room with the microphone facing under the door toward the staircase and hallway.

Identify the sounds heard in the clip – What is recreated in this recording is a series of sounds I have developed quite an awareness for in the last few months. This is the sound that I hear through my door whenever my room-mate comes home. It always baffles me that I can pick up of the tiny differences in his style of walking that I always know if it is him coming down the hallway as opposed to any of my multitude of neighbors. In this sound clip you initially can hear me open the door and leave my room so that I can recreate this moment. Next you can faintly hear me grab the door knob and swing the door open from the stair well there is a very subtle and extremely high frequency noise of the door creaking. I pull the door open and turn down the hallway toward my room. I was careful in the recording to not pick my feet up when I walked as that is generally what I hear when my roommate is coming down the hall. Next thing you can hear is me grabbing my lanyard with keys and pushing it into the key slot of my door and missing a few times. Right after this you can hear the key go into the hole and then the door swing open and the door knob twists back into place and the door shuts.

1- 2/27/13 10:00 P.M. My suite.

2- Talking from rooms downstairs, Faint music, Sniffling

3- Faucet running, Toilet flushing, Ventilation, Doors

4- TV,

5- A low hum with miscellaneous sounds

6- White Noise

7- TV, Ventilation, Faucet

It was interesting to me how, in my field recording, much of the sound environment was lost to the quality of my laptop’s mic. In it you are unable to hear the farthest sounds. Some of the medium range sounds blend in with the ventilation. Most of the sounds are distorted.

My Suite

Door being opened, propped, and shut , TV, Ventilation, Toilet, Hing Creak

3/15/12   8:45 pm   Gas station

You can hear the voice and echo of a woman talking on the screens where the gas pumps are throughout the recording.  Cars whoosh by in front of me and the sounds get louder as they come closer.  At the end you hear the car door being opened and there are a few beeping noises  signaling that the door is open.