Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

Into the Woods rehearsal, around 9:00 pm, April 10th, 2014.

Sounds heard: The wolf singing, little red faintly singing, rehearscore, the director and I speaking about the dance, I say “the turn” at some point,  a cough.

Location: Enterprise, 6th floor

Sounds Heard: You can hear the sounds of my resident playing the electric guitar in his room, the sounds of my residents harmonizing and singing in the bathroom and then having  a conversation. You can hear the shower running in the background of them. Whether or not they were singing in the shower is unknown and I wasn’t about to find out.

Location: Houlihan’s (the restaurant) in a booth.

Sounds heard in the clip: Eliza is singing along with the music that is playing: Unwritten by Natasha Beddingfield. I am heard saying “Wait for the break” Stefanie says that we need to “get some harmonies in there” and there is general murmur of people talking in the restaurant underneath. Very fun times.

Drounge, 3/14/13, 4:45pm

Caitlin and Laura singing, then Caitlin and Laura trilling, me talking, Laura talking and laughing, Marina typing and laughing, Geena laughing, a backpack being zipped, papers rustling, breathing, murmurs.

1- 02/28/2013-6:24-Lowe 110 Rehearsal Santiago ’73

2- Sounds farthest away: Footsteps of people leisurely walking around outside of the room.

3- Sounds at medium range: Musical Director softly saying “One, two, three” as he conducts, cast playing guitar and singing harmonies as well as speaking lines at different times.

4- Sounds closest to me: The sound of my exhalation.

5- General sound level and amount of sound activity: General sound level is very soft and  the level of sound activity is about at a medium. Cast members are singing in harmony, two guitars are strumming to the light whisper of the tempo. All of the sounds come together to make a crisp streamline of sound so that it makes the elements seem linear. The people walking outside are in no rush at all, their steps seem to swing along with the rhythm of the song and the whispers. I notice my breathing naturally aligns itself with the sounds around me.

6- One word description of the “sound environment”: Swung.
7- 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment: Soft whispering of the tempo, singing, guitar.

1- 2/19/13 Emily Lowe 106 7:30 P.M.

2- Talking in the Drama Lounge and the hall, Doors opening and closing.

3- Piano, Singers, Talking of the instructor.

4- Typing on a laptop keyboard, Talking.

5- In the room there was the loud piano and singers. The combination of those sounds filled the room, but I was still able to hear sounds coming from outside the room.

6- Process

7- Piano, Men’s Voices, Women’s Voices. The singers and the piano make up the majority of this sounde environment.

Emily Lowe 106, Tuesday 2/19/13

Piano – The different parts to a line in music

Singing – Women’s and Men’s voices.

Talking – Teaching the music to the singers.

Location: Back of Student Center, during a “Coffee House” style performance series — February 7, 2012, 8:29 pm

Sounds Heard: Aaron playing the acoustic guitar and singing (both amplified), the chatter of students in the dining hall, applause, whooping, and his friend Arianna screaming “Okay, Aaron, I see you!” (to which he replies, “I also see you”), and laughter.

Thursday at 6:15 in a Monroe practice room.

You can hear my singing group practicing.  We are singing in Hebrew.  We are  also trying to work in the guitar and some of us really do not remember the music, so it doesn’t sound as good as usual. In the beginning you can also hear a few people talking.

Voice Lesson on February 10, 2012 at 11AM – working on a new song with voice teacher David Ronis