Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

Identify the location of the clip – I got a lifeproof case for Christmas for my Iphone. A lifeproof case is completely waterproof and so I decided to do something entirely new and different. This field recording is taken from inside my shower stall with my phone placed on the soap holder.

Identify the sounds heard in the clip – The first sound that you can hear is the background noise of the water hitting the bottom of the shower floor and then the ting of me setting my phone down on the soap holder. You can then proceed to hear me rinse my hair and the surges of water drop and hit the shower floor. As the recording continues you can hear me fill my hands with water and then drop it to the floor. At the end the water is shut off and you can only hear it drip off of my body adn then the shower curtain opened. The final noise is me grabbing my towel and drying off which is a lower “boomy” noise. Overall the sound is very tinny and echoey because I am in the shower stall and the tiles of the walls reflect the high frequency of the sound waves as the water hits the ground.  

1- 2/12/13, My dorm room shower, 10:30 P.M. After State of the Union Address

2- TV News Station talking about State of the Union speech, Roommates talking about the speech

3- Smooth Jazz pandora radio station being played from an ipod in the bathroom, water running through pipes in the walls

4- Water splashing against shower walls, water rushing through shower head

5- Dull and muffled outside the bathroom, the bathroom gave the sounds within an echoing effect. If I focused on the sound of the water in the shower I couldn’t hear anything else, but if I focused on sounds other than the water I still heard the water of the shower just as easily.

6- Resonant. The news and my roommates were reflecting on the speech that happened prior, resonating in a figurative sense, and the sounds in the bathroom resonated, literally, withing the bathroom itself.

7- Water from the showerhead, the News, sound of splashing water

The Bathroom.

Sounds: The Shower, The toilet flushing, me coughing, someone washing their hands, the fan, banging from people walking upstairs.