Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

1- Date/Time/Location.
4.4.13/4:00pm/In the car

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
The hum of the other cars driving on the road, a distant honk

3- Identify and list the sounds at medium range from you.
Other cars driving past, the bass of a another car’s stereo, the wind

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
The music playing, my mom singing along, the turn signal

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

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

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
The other cars, the wind, the music in our car

Identify the location:
In the car with a few of my friends (if your volume is up, you might want to turn it down, because my friends are loud).

Identify the sounds:
I started the recording after they were belting out the verses, during the guitar break.  They were joking about singing it and, “being off,” and then started singing again.  In the beginning of the recording you can hear one of my friends keys jangling as she claps her hands.  You can hear me laughing as they sing, and you can hear them laughing as well.  One of them starts to sing the guitar part at one point.  At the end, you can hear all of us laughing as the song ends and the radio announcer comes back on.
I like this recording because I feel like you can hear the smiles on everyone’s faces, and tell no one is trying to impress anyone else.  It’s just three girls being themselves and having fun.

Location: The parking lot/inside my car

Sounds Heard: Car door opening and shutting, keys jingling being put into the ignition, engine turning over, car beeping, seatbelt being clicked in, engine running

Location: Walking to class, from my house on Duncan Road to Emily Lowe Hall.
Sounds heard in the clip: The very satisfying sound of crunching a light layer of snow under my snow boots. The tempo is pretty fast and consistent and it is a constant sound in the clip. A car beep and a car starting are more specific sounds that follow, as well as occasional spurts of wind toward the end.

Date, Time, Location: Friday March 23^rd , 2012; 2:30AMish, driving home

Farthest Sounds: no distinct sound

Medium Range Sounds: car engine,

Closets Sounds: wind against moving car, creaking from age of car, slams on the occasional bump in the road, me belting someone like you by Adele with the radio.

Sound Activity (Amount/Level): medium volume

Descriptive Word: intimate

Essential Sounds: car engine, cut through of wind, bumps in road

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.

1- DATE-TIME-LOCATION: 2/2/12, 7:00pm In My Parked Car

2- Hoodlums Conversing, Cars Honking

3- Hip Hop from another car stereo, cars passing

4- my engine,

5- multiple ambient sounds all at a low level.

6- Street

7- Cars Honking and Passing, My Engine

1) In a car leaving Hofstra and getting on to Hempstead Turnpike.

2) Rain hitting the windshield, whispering/ talking, laughing/ giggling, acceleration of car, blinker click noise and coughing.

Location: Inside my car

Car door closing, keys jingling, talking, engine starting.