Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

Location: Adams Playhouse

The sounds heard in this clip consists of repetitive piano chords, some woodwind-like instruments, incoherent whispering, footsteps, and curtains rustling occasionally.

Location: Colonial Square
Sounds: Footsteps, generator, grass, car beeps

Location: Walking into the student center from the unispan

Sounds: Keys jangling, footsteps, breathing every now and then, overlapping chatter (distant and close)

The walk from Memorial Hall to Emily Lowe Hall

footsteps crunching, my keys, doors, wind

1. 2/7/2024, 1:50 pm, Emily Lowe
2. people entering and exiting Lowe
3. other people talking in the Drounge
4. Emma talking to me
5. a lot of sounds, but they’re all at more medium volumes
6. alive
7. the door to Lowe, footsteps walking by, people talking

March 6th, 4:26PM, Shapiro Family Hall lobby.

Furthest: Heating system humming, very distant talking, echoes from the piano. 

Medium: Footsteps walking towards outside, piano playing melodically.  

Closest: Students talking, the double glass doors closing, fabric from my clothing moving. 

Sound level varies extremely as the people who pass me talk loudly and their footsteps ring, contrasting with the light piano tunes and the echoing. The amount of sound activity is spirited as there is a strong contrast between low tones and high.

One Word Description: Spirited

Essential Sounds: 

1. Piano playing melodically 
2. Students talking 
3. Footsteps

Date: April 30th, 2022

Location and Time: Blackbox Theater, 10:30am

Far Sounds: Door to the scene shop creaking, someone walking around backstage, audience platform creaking, AC going

Medium Sounds: Someone getting up from their chair, Tom typing on his computer, George walking down the stairs, someone walking across the audience platform, Ashley walking around on stage, moving lights moving to light up the tree

Close Sounds: Rych asking Mystery if lighting is okay, Royston talking to Mystery, the shaking of the platform, sounds playing in the speakers

Sound Description/Level: Chaotic, loud

One Word Description: Chaos

Most Important Sounds: AC blowing, the shaking of the audience platforms, door to the scene shop

Date: March 14

Location and Time: Hempstead, NY, Campus at 8:20 am

Far Sounds: giggling in the distance, car speeding by, trash truck brakes squealing

Medium Sounds: public safety walkie talkie going off, wind rustling the trees

Close Sounds: my footsteps on the pavement, my backpack rustling against my coat, birds chirping

Sound Description/Level: it sounds like an early morning. Everything is waking up and getting ready to start the day. Cars haven’t arrived yet and not many students have come to campus. 

One Word: quiet

1. March 11th- 6:00PM-Outside of Axinn Library 
2. Far Sounds~  Clanking as the wind whips and makes the flag hit the flag pole, thudding of footsteps as people are walking off of the Unispan, wind whistling 
3. Medium Sounds~ Chirping of birds in trees and the scratching/scuttling of squirrels running up trees and their branches. 
4. Close Sounds~ Rustling of leaves from the tree I am sitting directly under, the labored breathing of the person next to me as they experience a cold chill from the wind in question. 
5. There seems to be a lot of sound activity happening but the level it is being produced is very soft and would be considered background noise that goes unnoticed during the regular day. 
6. Serene
7. Chirping of the birds, the rustling of the leaves, the slight whistle of the wind-  these three sounds I would say are essential to keeping the sound environment in tact. They all represent sounds in nature, furthermore a representation of how serene nature can be if we stopped to listen. 

Location: Walking upstairs from my basement to the first floor

Sounds In Clip: Footsteps; A light switch being turned from ON to OFF;  Doors being manually closed; The steps creaking; A doorknob being turned; Noises coming from the television