Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

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.

In my dorm room on March 22 at 10:15

You can hear the television in the background.   My roommate also decided to blow dry her hair, so you can hear a hair dryer in the background as well.

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Location: sitting on my bed in my dorm room

Sounds Heard: television- voices and music from local news station, rustling, typing on computer keyboard

1) 2/3/11-9:30 p.m.-Lounge on the 12^th floor of Alliance Hall

2) The occasional DING of the elevator doors opening as well as the television in the far off room were the furthest audible sounds.

3) The sound of people talking, doors opening, and chairs moving, all sounds coming from adjacent rooms would qualify as medium range.

4) The florescent lights above were the closest external sound, but considering I was quite sick, my own haggard breathing was by far the closest sound.

5) The sound activity was low; only two people heard speaking to one another, while the television in the furthest room away had high sound levels and was quite loud even though I was in another enclosed room a distance away.

6) Mellow

7) The noise from the television, elevator dings, and people talking.