Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

Location: The subway, NY City

Sounds: chatter, phone calls, talking

1. 02/07/2024 – 8:30pm – Emily Lowe Hall.
2. Sounds farthest away from me: people walking around upstairs, laughing, the occasional toilet flush and sink.
3. Sounds at medium range: slow contemporary music playing, dancing and feet moving, quiet applause.
4. Sounds closest to me: people talking, papers rustling, pens clicking and writing.
5. The general sound level is average but close to loud and the amount of sound activity is constant.
6. Description word: chaotic.
7. Essential sounds: constant talking, dancing, and faint music.

location: inside Netherlands Hall

sounds heard: “Say My Name” by Destiny’s child, people talking, the television

1. 02/09/2023 – 4:22 PM – Emily Lowe Hall Drounge
2. Far away: People talking in a classroom, a small beep, the sound of an air conditioner
3. Medium: Footsteps (some going further and some coming closer), the entrance door slamming, a classroom door being shut
4. Closest: The sound of me breathing due to congestion, someone taking a sip of their drink, typing, someone chewing
5. The sound level started out quite loud, but it has now gone down to barely any sounds that aren’t the ones mentioned in #4. This is the same regarding the sound activity. Originally, it began with hearing #2 and #3 together, and those sounds faded away, which led me to hear #4. Therefore, the sound activity went from high to low.
6. Descriptor: Bustling
7. The essential sounds are: the faraway sound of people talking in a classroom, the sound of footsteps, and the sound of the entry door slamming. 

March 30, 7:30 pm

Danceworks run through

the music playing in Dempster, the girls down the hallway tap dancing, laughter from the girls

my friend tori’s music coming from her headphones, Jill typing on her computer, video playing from my phone

my heartbeat after dancing hard, my tap shoes tapping

busy

loud

the music in the background, people practicing their dances and laughing, my heartbeat

1. Stuyvesant Hall 3/28/17
2. Fire alarm going off, complaining with my roommate. Someone outside of my door scrambling to put a shirt on. Running down the stairs, someone dropped their keys.

1. 2/16/17 9:00 PM Hague House, Netherlands
2. Radiator hum, door opening/closing sound
3. water pouring into a water bottle
4. singing, music coming from laptop
5. Loud, she really goes for it when she sings.
6. Powerful
7. Singing, music from laptop, water pouring into a water bottle

1. 2/7/2017

Approximately 7:30 AM

My car, on the Meadowbrook Parkway, heading to Hofstra

2. Another car on the road, some distance away.
3. Another car as it passed me on the left.

The sound of the wheels as the car quickly moves.

4. The engine’s high whine as it struggles to change gears

The engine’s roar as it coasts at about 65 miles per hour.

The music in the car playing very loudly; the cast recording of The Adding Machine: A New Musical.

My own coughing, quite frequently.

5. Loud: my car is naturally pretty loud, as well as the cars around me, and my music is turned up even louder to compensate.
6. Quaint
7. The music playing on the radio.

The sound of my car’s engine chugging along.

The sound of my car’s engine wheezing as it barely chugs along.

– J. Val

1. 2/1/2017 6:30 PM Hofstra’s cafeteria
2. food container lids being opened, foot tapping on the floor
3. bottle crinkling, chairs scratching on the floor
4. loud talking
5. Really loud talking surrounding me.
6. Talking
7. Talking, chairs scratching on the floor, and food container lids being opened.

Location: Lowe 106

Sounds Heard: People milling about and talking with one another

*this was recorded on a BREAK during rehearsal, no show talk was recorded, there are no discernable conversations in this clip*