Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

Location: my house

The sounds heard in this clip consists of my fan, music playing faintly from my neighbor’s house, distant clanging/beeping, and my housemates talking downstairs.

Location: Bits Quad

The sounds heard in this clip consists of rain patter, rain hitting my umbrella, wind, my rain jacket brushing against itself as I walk, and a very faint beeping in the distance at the end.

Location and Date: Crossing California Avenue, around 11:00am on March 1st

Sounds Heard: Beeping of a construction truck, my own footsteps on the concrete, cars screeching to a stop or simply driving by, the doors of Monroe opening and people starting to talk

Location: Outside of Vander Poel hall into the lobby, 2/21/18 around 11:20am

Sounds heard: My sneakers on the damp concrete (my favorite sound here, it was interesting), wind, the card-swipe machine beeping, the front door opening, the turnstile creaking

RSR Booth 2/8/18 C2 Far East Booth 3PM

Location: Elevator in Hagedorn Hall

Sounds Heard: The squeaking of the Elevator door opening and closeing, the beeping to tell you what floor you’re on, and the slight wheezing as the elevator raises.

1. 4/1/17, 6:58 PM, Waiting for train at Mineola
2. Farthest sound: Music from inside a car pulling into the station, train horn
3. Medium: Beeping from ticket machines, music playing from a speaker
4. Closest: Couple talking next to me, Voice on intercom announcing trains, luggage rolling behind me
5. Medium
6. Hectic
7. Couple talking, train horn, car music, music form speaker, beeping, intercom

Location: Weight room in Physical Education Building

Sounds heard: Whirring of exercise equipment, high pitched beeping, very low and muffled chatter

1 – 3/24/14 – 3:00pm – Cancer Center (Clinic), Stony Brook University Hospital

2 – Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
-An episode of Spongebob playing on one of the TVs in the treatment room.
-A medicine cart’s wheels squeaking as a nurse pushes it down the hallway.
-A child crying in a nearby examination room.

3 – Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
-The nurses’ footsteps as they walk toward examination rooms or the treatment room.
-One of the doctors speaking to a patient.

4 – Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
-The beeping and drone sounds that the blood pressure machine makes.
-The sliding of the device that measures my height.
-The pinging of the scale.
-Sounds of the doors being opened and shut.

5 – Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
-There was a medium sound level in the clinic during my routine checkup. Most of the sounds I heard began and ended quickly, such as the beeping sounds and the door shutting. The cart’s squeaking and the child crying were the sounds that could be heard above everything else. In terms of activity, the sounds were occurring at a quick and steady pace.

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

7 – Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
-The sounds of the blood pressure machine.
-The medicine cart’s wheels squeaking.
-The pinging of the scale.

3/15/12   8:45 pm   Gas station

You can hear the voice and echo of a woman talking on the screens where the gas pumps are throughout the recording.  Cars whoosh by in front of me and the sounds get louder as they come closer.  At the end you hear the car door being opened and there are a few beeping noises  signaling that the door is open.