Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

1. 2/4/2015, 7:58pm, sidewalk
2. Farthest sound: Airplane taking off, cars driving through puddles
3. Medium sound: People talking, cars driving closer
4. Closest sounds: Footsteps on the concrete, jacket sleeves rubbing against sides
5. Sound level: Medium, most sounds aren’t super close or loud
6. Sound description: Busy
7. Important sounds: Footsteps, cars

1) Walk to the Student Center from Dutch Treats, Thursday April 10th, at around 10:45 PM

Sounds Heard: My footsteps, Me opening a bag of cashews, Sniffling, The opening of the two automatic doors in the Student Center, Assorted chatter

3/6/14, Walking back from The Comedy of Errors

Sounds Heard: footsteps, wind whipping past the microphone, someone flipping through their playbill, Christina humming, me tripping on my own feet, walking up the brick steps in front of Axinn, me breathing in

Identify the location of the clip – This recording is taken from the floor just inside the door to my dorm room with the microphone facing under the door toward the staircase and hallway.

Identify the sounds heard in the clip – What is recreated in this recording is a series of sounds I have developed quite an awareness for in the last few months. This is the sound that I hear through my door whenever my room-mate comes home. It always baffles me that I can pick up of the tiny differences in his style of walking that I always know if it is him coming down the hallway as opposed to any of my multitude of neighbors. In this sound clip you initially can hear me open the door and leave my room so that I can recreate this moment. Next you can faintly hear me grab the door knob and swing the door open from the stair well there is a very subtle and extremely high frequency noise of the door creaking. I pull the door open and turn down the hallway toward my room. I was careful in the recording to not pick my feet up when I walked as that is generally what I hear when my roommate is coming down the hall. Next thing you can hear is me grabbing my lanyard with keys and pushing it into the key slot of my door and missing a few times. Right after this you can hear the key go into the hole and then the door swing open and the door knob twists back into place and the door shuts.

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.

Location: Walking out of breslin toward sound class

Sounds Heard: Footsteps, Cars, Stairs echoing, People doing the talking thing

Unispan

Walking across the main Unispan.

Talking, laughing, people walking by, girls in heel making noise as they walk.