Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

Location: My bedroom

Sounds: Birds chirping (windows are open), door creaking, planes, faint talking, cars, wind, computer fan, thumping from in the house.

Keri Haslebacher

2/24 6:30pm Student Center Pride Den

Furthest Sound: The hum of the heater on the other side of the room

Medium Range Sound: Group of people arguing and some jazz music being played

Closest Sound: The taping of my friends pencil on the table, and the the clicking of keys on a keyboard

Sound Level: Medium. Loud off in the distance but pretty quite where I am

One Word: Ambient

Essential Sounds: Chatter, Music, Keys

Location: a house concert.

The sounds heard in this clip consists of singing, quiet drumming, guitar strumming, people talking, laughter, and applause/cheering.

Date: 2/22 11:15, backrooms of Bits and Bytes

Farthest away from me: The blender whirring at Red Mango

Medium range: People typing and talking in the next room 

Closest to me: Two guys at the table next to me talking about their math homework 

The sound level is just above a murmur. When the guys at the table stop talking, my surroundings are very quiet. 

One word: Buzzing  

3 essential sounds: Quiet chatter, typing, and the blender in the food area

Location: Blackbox lobby

Sounds: people speaking inaudibly in the background, someone singing a little tune, slightly more distinct yet still difficult to understand conversations, Phoebe talking about her sister coming to visit, laughing

 

2/24 4:54PM; my bedroom

sound that feels farthest away from me: either a party or a sports event happening down the street

medium range: plane flying overhead

sound closest to me: my strangely loud breathing; the sound of me typing; my housemate rustling around on the other side of our shared wall

sound level: it’s quiet in the sense that nothing is happening around me but loud because of what’s going on down the street

one word: awake

essential sounds: my housemate, the party, my breathing

 

2/24/24

Place: my room

Sound closest to me: keyboard clacking, my music playing

Sound in medium distance: water running, cat meowing halfheartedly

Sound in distance: cars driving by, the door opening downstairs

Sound level: low

One word: soft

Essential Sounds: my music, water running, cat meowing

 

 

Hofstra Fitness Center 8:07 PM Friday

sounds closest to me: Weights slamming, chattering, sounds of metal banging together

medium distance: pop music playing from the radio, more weights

Furthest from me: cars from outside driving by

sound level: it is pretty loud, as the weights are slamming constantly and people are talking loudly. It is pretty busy.

one word: Rough

essential sounds: the weights slamming, the music playing, the people talking to show that it is crowded

2/23/24 – 11:33 pm – my friends dorm
Farthest Sound – the farthest sound from me is the cars racing down Oak Street, honking at other cars that are going “too slow”
Medium Sound – the sound that is in medium distance from my friend’s air purifier, a white noise background noise if you will
Closest Sound – the closest sound from me is my besties ranting about the newest tea in around campus and a song playing on my friend’s tiktok
The sound level – the sound level continues to vary like the shape of a wave due to the people around me getting really into what they are explaining
One word – drama
Essential sounds – talking, white noise, honking, cars driving quite fast

2/23/24 – 11:00 – My Room

2 (Farthest sound) : Distant chatter from roommates, distant footsteps, Sound of kitches appliances

3  (Medium sound) : Footsteps from stairs, Creaks from doors

4 (Closest) : Ringing in ears, sound of creaks in my desk and bed, sound of wind from outside

5 (General Activity) : Not any sound that are of notice except the voices being heard, otherwise it would be a rather quiest house with only the nature to give it any noise

6 (One word description) : Hubub

7 : Voices/Laughter, banging of feet, Refrigerator doors