Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

Outside Netherlands North, Hofstra University

cardboard, paper, and similar art supplies shifting/crinkling, footsteps on pavement, automatic door opening, cars

1. February 16th, 2017, 1:56pm-The Drounge
2. Farthest Sounds – Laughter and talking coming from Lowe 106
3. Medium Sounds – Footsteps coming down the stairs, people in the psibrary
4. Closest Sounds – Keyboard typing
5. Sound Level – Soft
6. Sound Description – Studious
7. Essentials Sounds – Footsteps, Talking, Typing

Where-Outside Student Center

What-Leaf Blower, Footsteps,

Location/Time: Unispan into Student Center, 6:54pm

Sounds Heard: footsteps, doors opening and closing, random chatter

1. 3/11/2016, 12:41 am, My room
2. Farthest: footsteps in the hallway, laughter and chatter of my housemates outside my room
3. Medium: the cars on the street in front of the Netherlands driving, random kids walking around and talking outside my window
4. Closest: the sound of my fan whirring, papers flapping on my walls
5. Level: Low
6. One word: Serene
7. 3 sounds: Footsteps, Cars, Fan

3/4/16 12am walking outside Nassau/suffolk dorms

Sounds: footsteps, car engines, wind, students yelling

Location: 2/12/16, about 9:00AM, stairwell

Sounds heard: Footsteps, door opening and closing, faint music

Location: Walking to class

Sounds heard: footsteps, cars, crunching salt

1. 1/29/2016 – 6:14pm – Hague House Lounge
2. Farthest: footsteps going up and down the staircases and in the hallways
3. Medium: other students in the common room typing on their computers and watching videos on their computers
4. Closest: music from my computer while I do my work, scratching on my notebook from my pen
5. Sound level: medium, not too loud but there are many things going on
6. One Word: active
7. 3 words: footsteps, typing, video playing

1. 3/7/14, 2:01am, HUvZ Club Office

2. Identify the Sounds farthest from you:
>I can faintly hear cars in the distance.
>The occasional open and close of the sliding door in the atrium.
>The workers at Sbarro closing up shop.

3. Identify the Sounds at Medium range from you:
>The buzz of the lights.
>The light footsteps of whoever is outside the room.
>The occasional bump on the walls, probably from pipes or old building creak noises.

4. Identify the sounds Closest to you:
>My breath.
>The song that is stuck in my head that is driving me crazy enough to actually hear it.
>The sound of my mouth as I shift my tongue around and swallow some saliva.

5. Describe the general sound level and amount of activity:
>It’s almost at a dead silent. There is nothing going on.

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

7. Three sounds essential to the sound environment:
>My breath
>The buzzing
>The occasional bump on the walls