Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

1. 2-2-17, 2:35pm, Lowe 106, Movement for the Actor
2. Farthest Sounds: The hum of the heater
3. Medium Sounds: Footsteps, Robert giving instructions
4. Closest Sounds: My breathing
5. Sound Level: Soft
6. Sound Description:  Meditative
7. Essential Sounds: Robert, Breathing

Location: 1130 Pembroke Street living room, 2/18/16, 9:00am

Farthest: muted voices in room next door

Medium: Cars driving by on the street, birds tweeting outside

Closest: Heater breathing, keys typing

Sound level: low

One Word: Peaceful

Three Sounds: Cars, people, birds

1. 3/7/14, 2:01am, HUvZ Club Office

2. Identify the Sounds farthest from you:
>I can faintly hear cars in the distance.
>The occasional open and close of the sliding door in the atrium.
>The workers at Sbarro closing up shop.

3. Identify the Sounds at Medium range from you:
>The buzz of the lights.
>The light footsteps of whoever is outside the room.
>The occasional bump on the walls, probably from pipes or old building creak noises.

4. Identify the sounds Closest to you:
>My breath.
>The song that is stuck in my head that is driving me crazy enough to actually hear it.
>The sound of my mouth as I shift my tongue around and swallow some saliva.

5. Describe the general sound level and amount of activity:
>It’s almost at a dead silent. There is nothing going on.

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

7. Three sounds essential to the sound environment:
>My breath
>The buzzing
>The occasional bump on the walls