Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

Date: February 23,2018, 12:32 am

Location: Newport, room 222

1. Farthest Sounds: Air plain moving ahead, People walking and talking through the gate, car speeding.
2. Medium sounds:  Music playing in the hall, television on, two people talking in the room next to me, heavy footsteps.
3. Closets sounds: roommate playing guitar, footsteps, air conditioning
4. General Sound: low sound level.
5. Sound Intensity: Low intensity.
6. One word description: Boring
7. Important sounds: Air condition, music, roommate talking.

Location: Breslin Hall

Sounds Heard: You can hear the sounds of my professor as she’s teaching something about legal studies and the sound of my neighbor shuffling through her notes to try to find the answer. You can hear the clicking of the keyboard as I’m messing around on my computer.

1- Thursday, April 24, 2014, 3:15pm, Breslin Hall

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.

Furthest away from me, you can hear my professor lecturing about the legal studies in business and asking the class questions pertaining to the lesson we’re learning.

3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.

At medium range from me, you can hear my neighbor flip through her notes as she looks for the answer to the question my teacher has just posed.

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).

Closest to me, you can hear the sounds of my clicking away on my keyboard as I’m pretending to take notes in class.

5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.

The sound level in the classroom is rather quiet as everyone’s paying attention and trying to grasp exactly what the teacher is trying to explain.

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

Bored

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try and figure out what sounds make up this environment and which of those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment to stay intact.

Three sounds that are essential to this sound environment are the sounds of my professors voice in the background as she’s teaching class, the sound of my neighbor flipping through her notes and the sound of me messing around on my computer.

1) Alliance Hall – Right Elevator

2) What’s more exciting that elevator music? An elevator with no music of course! In this clip you can hear elevator doors open and close, bells announcing floors being passes, and people chatting about wether the elevator is going up or down.