Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

1. When/Where: 4/12/2016; 6:05 p.m.; my dorm
2. Farthest: elevator beepeing, people getting off elevator talking
3. Medium: shower running, bathroom door closing, neighbor listening to the radio
4. Closest: My refrigerator humming, glass and plastic bottles being put into a bag
5. Level: medium
6. One word: noisy
7. 3 sounds: beeping, slamming, humming

1. When/Where: 3/17/2016; 11:13 p.m.; my dorm
2. Farthest: presumably drunk people yelling out in the hall, slamming of trash cans, doors slamming
3. Medium: My roommate folding her clothes, her phone buzzing every 5 minutes
4. Closest: Music from my laptop playing My Moon My Man, typing of my keys, my granola bar crunching as I eat it, the wrapper crinkling
5. Level: Medium
6. One word: Contrasting
7. 3 sounds: slamming, buzzing, music

Date: 2/25/2016, 9:38pm, dorm

Farthest sounds: People talking in the hall, doors slamming, toilet flushing, cars outside

Medium sounds: The vibration from the vents, the wind outside, the windows creaking against the wind

Closest sounds: Music from my laptop, keyboard clicking, phone vibrating

Sound level: Medium

Sound description: Stormy

Important sounds: Music, wind

1. 1/31/2105,  7:14PM,  my dorm
2. Farthest: The sound of the fridge, vents
3. Medium: Various Skype update noises, clock ticking
4. Closest: Static, keyboard clicking as someone types, conversation
5. Sound level: Mostly medium but fluctuates as people join and leave the Skype call
6. One word: Entertaining
7. Three words: Friends, laptop, Skype

1. 1/29/2016 – 6:14pm – Hague House Lounge
2. Farthest: footsteps going up and down the staircases and in the hallways
3. Medium: other students in the common room typing on their computers and watching videos on their computers
4. Closest: music from my computer while I do my work, scratching on my notebook from my pen
5. Sound level: medium, not too loud but there are many things going on
6. One Word: active
7. 3 words: footsteps, typing, video playing

1 – 3/13/14 10:25PM- My dorm room

2 – Identify and list the sounds furthest  from you.

•  A car drives by the window
• A dog barking in the distance
• Sirens from a firetruck as it drives by

3 – Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.

• The blower in the room, blowing cool air
• Niki, my roommate, clicking at his keyboard
• Niki, turning pages of his textbook

4 – Identify and list the sounds closest to you.

• The click of my neck as I turn my head
• Me clicking my laptop keys
• Someone knocking at the door (My bed is right near the door)
  

5 – Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.

• The sound level in the room is very low.  Niki and I are both tired, so we are both sitting in silence as we do our work. Sound activity in the room is at a medium range, with all the sounds being heard are soft and hushed

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

• Serene

7 – Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.

• The blower
• The cars driving by the window
• The turning of the pages

1.Thursday 1/30/14 6:45pm. 614B Portsmouth House, Colonial Square.

2. Boys playing soccer in the hallway.

Cars on the street behind C-Square.

3. Suitemate humming as she gets ready to go out.

Shower head running.

Lana Del Rey playing somewhere next door.

4. Heater blowing out air.

5. Generally calm, save for soccer balls slamming into the walls that are jarring and alarming.

6.  Dense

7. Soccer ball hitting the wall outside

Humming

Lana playing in background.

1- Date/Time/Location.
4.17.13/12:00pm/My dorm room

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
Someone speaking obnoxiously loudly in the hallway; they must be walking by because I can hear their voice grow louder, and then fade out.  It sounds like they (or someone they were walking with, perhaps) were swinging their keys back and forth, because I could hear a rhythmic jingling.

3- Identify and list the sounds at medium range from you.
One of my suite mates intermittently yelling and laughing extremely loudly at a television show or movie on her television or computer (which I can also hear, though faintly), another suite mate coughing.

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
Jukebox the Ghost playing from my iPod dock, softly.  The steady drip, drip, drip from my heater into the garbage can placed under it as it hums, wheeze-like (I should really get that fixed…), the squeak of my bed as I shift position.

5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
Medium level and activity.  It’s lower in my room, but it’s certainly higher in my suite mate’s room.

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

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
Rachelle yelling/laughing at her television, Jukebox the Ghost, and the hum of my heater.

1) 2/14/13, 10:15am, Dorm Room in Constitution Hall

2) Trucks on the road near by, honking, wind blowing through the trees

3) Wind rattling the blinds on my window, which is slightly open. Refrigerator humming quietly

4) My own typing, breathing

5) It is very quiet, but fairly active.

6) Tranquil

7) Wind, Trucks going by in the distance, rhythm of the window shade tapping