Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

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

1- 3/7/2013-2:18pm-Spiegel Theater

Styles II Class: Stefanie is performing her monologue, Royston has her watch a video on Youtube as she performs.

2- Farthest away: The “rickety-rack” of the vent, Royston’s voice with suggestions.

3- Medium range: Stefanie’s voice as she performs, the video she is listening to on her phone.

4- Sounds closest: The sound of someone chewing gum next to me.

5- General sound level and amount of sound activity: Sound activity and levels are very low, all people speaking are speaking with indoor voices and the gum chewing, vent, and video are sounds that give the room a strange intrusive feeling.

6-One word description to the “sound environment”: Creepy.

7- 3 sounds essential to the sound environment. Gum chewing, vent, background video noises on the phone.

Identify the location of the clip – I recorded this clip in the lobby of the Spiegel just before the beginning of pie night. There was a large group standing around waiting to be let in and someone bumped the lights and made creepy noises.
Identify the sounds heard in the clip – In this clip one can hear the large amount of activity and anticipation that comes in the minutes before a Cabaret night begins in the Spiegel. It begins with a smattering of conversations and yelling across the room and then one can hear the moment in which the lights go out and one student begins to make a rather odd, non humanlike noise that cuts through the room and causes a few people to scream. As people begin to figure out what is going they begin to laugh. Encouraged by laughter, the boy continues to make extreme noises and show everyone this “astonishing” talent he possesses.