Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

Date/Location: 4-5-17, 4:23pm, The Psybrary

Far Sounds: Voices in distant hallways

Medium Sounds: Jared in the Drounge saying something probably really funny, Mike Mahoski also talking in the Drounge, others in the drounge, the door to outside opening

Close Sounds: The inner door opening as Ethan Marble leaves, Lisa and Heidi talking to Ethan, my headphones playing Real Love Baby by Father John Misty

Overall Level: Medium-High

Descriptive Word: Lively

3 Most Important Sounds:

Mike Mahoski

Lisa, Heidi, and Ethan

Real Love Baby

April 5th, 2017, 10:43pm, Wagner College

Sound Description: The Hofstra Dutchmen chill as we all listen to music and talk.

Date & Location: 3/30, 1:30pm, counter tops at bits n’ bytes

Sounds heard: people talking, *ding* from a phone, cash register, crinkle of a bag, a chair being pushed out, someone saying “corgi” multiple times, change

1- DATE-TIME-LOCATION of the sound environment
>Friday, February 7th
>2:30 A.M.
>Study Lounge, 6th floor of Nassau Residence Building

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
>Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal playing all the way down the hall.
>A first responder’s siren lightly pulsing a few blocks aWay.
>Footsteps approaching from down the hall.
>Trash being thrown away down the hall. It contain glass. I hope they recycle.

3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
>The couple making out in the room next to me.
>A very bass-filled male voice vibrating the wall.
>A t.v. playing in the room next to me.

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
>The heating unit that clanks and chinks every 23 seconds.
>The buzz of the light that seems to overpower everything.
>The cracking of my big toe.
>The sound of the couple hitting against the wall behind me as they make out.

5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
>Sound level is at a filling dull roar.
>Sound activity can best be described as casual and lightly paced.

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

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
>The heating unit.
>The couple hitting against the wall
>The muffled television.

1:  Thursday, February 14, 2013, 6:14 pm, Hofstra Student Center

2:  Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.

The sound of over a hundred voices bounces around the high-ceilinged, hard-surfaced space, making any sound beyond the room in which I sit completely inaudible over the din.  At its farthest, the sound of voices constitutes more a continuous, singular noise than a collective of individual voices – a humming, steady roar.

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

At my table, several people eat their food in solitude, sitting rather close to me on all sides because of the way the seats are configured around the table.  The sound of plastic forks and knives scratching against the cardboard of their to-go boxes makes a cacophony of irksome scratching noises.  One girl sits close enough to me that I can hear the wet, tearing sound that her soda makes when she sucks it violently through her gnawed, spit-covered straw, as well as the smacking of her lips as she eats her pasta.    Without such proximity, I would not be able to hear anything from my fellow diners.  After all, I can hear very few individual noises from the next table over, due to the general noise level in the dining area.

4: Identify and list the sounds closest to you (– you can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).

On my laptop, I am live-streaming the audio from a show in Boston’s Café 939, via Birncore.com.  I can hear the noises in this venue in Boston: I can hear glasses clinking, peals of giddy laughter, and the three male musicians tuning their guitars and making Valentine’s-related jokes to their largely female and thusly doting audience.   With no visual knowledge of the inside of the space, it’s a strange experience to be able to hear so vividly so finite moment and so intimate an environment, as it exists miles away from and yet simultaneous to all the hubbub in the student center.  Such an overlap is the closest thing one can get to a concrete experience of the multiverse.

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

Many individual sounds can be heard, but the general racket begins to sound very monotonous the more I sit in it.  Again, the overall noises level is quite high.

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

“Rambunctious”

7: Select and list 3 sounds that are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try and figure out what sounds make up this environment and which of those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment to stay intact.

The audio livestream is interesting, but not necessarily integral to the essence of the space at large.  Much more important is the incessant, buzzy sound of dozens of conversations at once, juxtaposed with the individual sounds of people scraping up their food, as well as the slurping sounds of the girl eating nearest to me.

Sound Observation 8 – Bits and Bits 9 AM

Georgia Andre

– Date/Time/Location

– 3/30/2012 / Bits and Bites / Hofstra University

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.

–  The sound of the kitchen , the sound of people in other parts of the dining hall.

3- Identify and list the sounds at medium range from you

– The TV News Station going blahblahblahblahblah, A man behind me talking

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you.

– Patrick drinking coffee, Patrick doing his Bits and Bites commercial, Patrick breathing heavily, Me typing, Me gasping for air as I cry.

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

– The sound level is quiet. There are a few louder noises than others, such as the TV and the man, but its all very still sounding.

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

– Classy (because people are being polite and there aren’t many people in general.)

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

– The kitchen noise, the TV, Patrick sitting in my booth.

1- 2/24/12 – 1:35am -My Dorm Room

2- Airplane passing over head, people laughing outside, and cars honking

3- People talking and laughing as they walk through the stairwell

4- Computer fan hum, refrigerator sound, HVAC hum on

5- The general sound level is low and amount of sound activity is low except for interruptions

6-  Spontaneous

7- Plane flying over hear, people laughing/talking, computer hum