Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

Location: Walking outside from library to Bit’s n Bytes.

Sounds heard: Talking, footsteps, police sirens, snow crunching, mild wind.

Time/Location: Student Center, 04/14/17, 9:35am

Sounds heard: music, people talking, cash register, a door open, crinkle of plastic, tongs drop against metal, beeping from a timer

Date/Location: Mineola Train Station, 2-25-17, 7:30am

Sounds Heard: kid yelling, train honking, rattling and vibration of train coming, train passing “swoosh”, breaks of the train coming to a stop, train door opening, beep of speaker turning on on train, man in speaker talking, birds chirping

Date/Location: 2-18-17, 8:23am, from window at Nassau/Suffolk RSR booth

Sounds heard: bird chirping, wood pecker, wind enhanced from microphone

1. 2/22/17 @ 8:20AM, Boston Logan International Airport
2. Farthest-An espresso machine at work, workers talking in a kitchen, quiet chatter all around, a bag falling, music and announcements overhead, a buzz of planes passing by.
3. Medium-Someone zipping a bag, the crunch of plastic bags from people’s breakfasts, a man talking on the phone, someone flipping through a magazine, footsteps on the hard floored path (I can’t tell what it’s made out of), the beep of the ticket checking machine.
4. Close-Women talking in a quiet voice, the lady behind me flipping the pages of a book, the sound of me typing, the sound of air being pushed out of the cushion when a man sat down, coughing
5. The sound level is low, even though there is arguably a moderate amount of sound activity, most of it is low and for some reason does not echo well
6. Sound Environment-‘Subdued’
7. Most Essential-chatter all around, buzz of planes, music and announcements.

1. 2/10/17 8:45AM Student Center 2nd floor next to the hair salon
2. An ominous buzz from industrial kitchen equipment, someone taking out the trash, the ladies at Sbarro’s making food, an espresso machine, the speak of wheels from some sort of cart.
3. Boots hitting the ground, various chattering, this beeping noise when people use the kiosks, people grabbing utensils, the rumbling of the cart
4. People passing behind me, the opening and closing of the bathroom door behind me, me typing on the keyboard.
5. General sound level is low. There’s a moderate level of activity but most of it is very quiet to begin with.
6. Subdued
7. Light chatter, the ominouus buzz, people passing by

1- DATE-TIME-LOCATION

• Friday, February 7th, 2014. 8:42 AM, My living room.

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

• Garbage truck starting and stopping on the next block
• Gentle hum of the wind
• Television coming from another room, set on a very high volume

3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
• Foot  steps clonking as my neighbors make a mad-dash for the train station.
• The bell on my cat’s collar ringing as he prances around the house
• Cars rushing past behind me

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
• The gentle hum of my laptop
• The bell on my cat’s collar ringing as he prances around the house
• Another cat breathing as she sleeps soundly
• My mother singing Les Mis, horribly.

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

The general sound level is at a medium, half the people in my family are not present- but the loudest two are here. The amount of sound activity is decent, its at this time that the house is quiet enough to hear all the sounds my cats make, which is a lot.

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

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
• The television
• The rattling of my cat’s bell collar
• The birds chirping

1-  January 29, 2014 9:50 am Bits & Bytes at a table

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

• The rumble and crackling of the radiator
• The morning news on the television
• The door opening and closing
• The wind brought in by the opening and closing of the door

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

• The footsteps of students
• The rotation of the ceiling fan
• The shaking of sugar packets by a cafeteria worker at the coffee machine
• A student pulling out a chair and arranging their things

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

• The humming of the toaster oven
• The conversation happening between cafeteria workers
• My pen writing on paper

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

• The general sound level is low but the sound activity is very low.  It is still considered early in the morning for most people, so there is no conversation made by any passing students. It is also a time where the cafeteria is generally empty. Most of the sounds are coming from objects.

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

• Asleep

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.

• The conversation among the employees
• The humming of the toaster
• Footsteps

Assign category “Journal Entry” to the post.

Add your first name as a tag. Add appropriate tags to the post (location, sounds, etc.).

Location: Outside Lowe early in the morning

Sounds Heard: Birds chirping, The trees doing that thing that they do with the breezes. Squirrels that are indigenous to the Hofstra community by subsisting on seeds, nuts, insects and even small vertebrates. Etc.

4/14/11 Approx. 8:15 AM, my bed
Farthest sounds: An airplane overhead, that siren, a lot of birds chirping, traffic outdoors
Medium sounds: Nick (my roommate) walking around doing his morning routine, Shama barking, doors opening and closing.
Near sounds: Bridget’s breathing, my breathing, my bedsprings creaking when either of us move.
Sound level: Loud, sustained
Sound environment: Noisy Morning
Essential Sounds: Siren, birds, creaking springs