Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

1. February 7, 8:57 pm, Vander Poel

2. Voices down the hall, occasional wind outside

3. Hum from refrigerator, roommate watching a basketball game on his laptop

4. Keyboard, slippers moving across the floor, fingers tapping

5. Medium. Not intensely loud, but the sounds are present without having to focus on listening for them.

6. Average

7. Voices down the hall, game from roommate’s laptop, keyboard

Constitution Lounge

Water running down the drain pipes, people laughing and singing, accidentally hitting the laptop on the heater

1:  Thursday, January 31, 2012, 12:17 pm, 714 Alliance Hall

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

There’s the distant, tinny beep of a truck backing up somewhere in the sprawl of adjacent parking lots.  There’s also the hissing sound of the wind rioting at upwards of 35 miles an hour, lashing the side of the building and making faint screaming sounds against the seams of my windows.

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

The boys two doors down have rigged their deadbolt to not lock automatically, so that they don’t have to pay for their misplaced keys.  But they must have left a window open, because their door keeps opening and closing with the tide of air pressure, the now impotent locking mechanism making fluid, metallic clicks as it slides out of its place before the door swishes open and then shut with a heavy thud.  The Resident Assistant on next door in the other direction asks someone on the phone about his “reservation.”

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

My fingers tap percussively on my keyboard; the keys are shallow and make clicks as soft as the exoskeletons of wayward insects, throwing their bodies against a light in a dark room.  My heating unit pushes out air with a constant, fuzzy hum.  I can also hear air hitting the inside of my nose as I inhale sporadically.

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

There is a lot of varied sound outside my room, but none so loud or close that the most minute of sounds cannot be heard in my own room.

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

1. January 31, 7:10 pm, Dorm room
2. Farthest: Turnpike traffic, trees blowing, cars in the parking lot
3. Medium: Voices from down the hall, doors opening and closing, wind outside building
4. Closest: Hum from refrigerator, creak of chair back, chewing
5. Not much activity, low level
6. Stillness
7. Wind, traffic, refrigerator

1-1/31/13, 12:30 A.M. My dorm room

2- Talking, Noises from pipes

3- Shower running, Sitar playing from an ipod

4- My own breathing, Heater

5- For the most part it was quiet. It was quiet enough to hear my breathing, but every individual sound was loud enough to hear over the others if I concentrated on them. All the sounds were very different, but it did not sound like any of them were in conflict. The sitar was the loudest and most unique sound. The combination of sounds created a calming, laid back atmosphere.

6- Relaxing

7- Sitar, Shower, Heater

1. 1/28/12, 10:31pm, Constitution Lounge

2. Motorcycle accelerating on the street outside

3. People talking, music playing, doors closing, elevator beeping

4. Water streaming down pipes and gurgling, typing, computer fan, sighing

5. The sound level is generally low to medium low, but there is a large amount of activity.

6. Productive

7. Typing, people talking, doors closing

May 3rd at 11pm in my friend’s dorm.

They were playing a video game and there is a lot of talking from various people in the background.

1- February 2, 2012, 8:45, Dorm Room – Lieden House- Netherlands North

2- Lots of obnoxious yelling and screaming of male voices

3- Doors opening and closing. A guy is talking on the phone in the hallway

4- The whir of the computer, my suitemates talking and the refrigerator is running, the shower water running.

5- The sound level is extremely loud as quiet have not started yet

6- Rambunctious

7- the obnoxious yelling, doors opening and closing, the sound of the refrigerator running

Location: Nassau Dorm

Sounds: Window opening and closing, cars, wind.

1. 2/24/11 5pm Nassau Hall, second floor hallway

2- TV’s, someone yelling.

3- A microwave beeping, talking in my dorm room.

4- My breathing, my foot tapping.

5- Quiet, peaceful.

6- Silence.

7- My foot tapping, tv in the distance, breathing.