Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

1. 3/17/16, 12:41, Green room of the NAB
2. Farthest: saw in the shop, bathroom door closing, keys jingling
3. Medium: door to the green room closing, someone shuffling through papers,
4. Closest: people talking, hum of the AC, typing, bracelet charms jingling
5. Sound level: Medium
6. One word: Anticipation
7. 3 Sounds: Saw in the shop, talking, keys jingling

1. 2/11/16- 6:39- The NAB
2. Farthest: People talking in the scene shop
3. Medium: People sipping coffee, typing, and talking, person listening to music
4. Closest: Someone playing drums, typing on my laptop
5. Sound Level: Minimal sound. It was loud for about 5 minutes and then it died down.
6. One word: Relaxed
7. 3 Sounds: talking, typing, music

Front of House office, NAB
Two other Front of House crew members talking quietly in the office while I look into my backpack.

1 – 5/1/14 – 8:30pm – Front of House office, NAB

2 – Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
-The doors of the NAB opening and slamming shut.
-Some sort of cart being rolled into the NAB building.

3 – Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
-Voices heard through the walls.

4 – Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
-The stage manager’s voice, heard through the intercom, as he gives out cues over his headset.
-Me rummaging through my backpack.
-A phone charger being plugged into the wall outlet.
-Sounds of typing on a MacBook Pro.

5 – Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
-After the cart was rolled into the NAB, it was pretty quiet in the area. The sounds that occurred were quite tame in terms of volume and how frequent they were.

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

7 – Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
-The stage manager’s voice.
-The sounds the doors of the NAB makes.
-The cart being rolled into the NAB building.

5 Women Preshow

Footsteps, Voices, 80s Music, Paper

Location: NAB Light Booth, 7:20pm, 4/11/2013

Sounds: Faint vacuum sound, clicking of mouse and keys on a keyboard, Courtney coughing and shuffling her position around in her chair. The loneliness and lack of excitement of the light booth as we wait for rehearsal to start in contrast to the excitement of the vacuuming and last minute set touch-ups going on below us

1- 04/04/2013- 9:08pm- Black Box Theater New Academic Building (NAB) Rehearsal for 5 Women.

2- Sounds farthest away: High-pitched but quiet hum of what could be a heater, radiator or lights.

3- Sounds at medium range: Eliza (Meredith) yelling at Sophie (Mindy), Meredith rips a piece of paper. Corinne (Trisha) putting make up away, Morgan’s (Georganne) skirt ruffles against her seat in the audience as she gets up for her upcoming cue.

4- Sounds closest: The sound of my paper crinkling as I write notes, the pencil rubbing against the paper. As I take an occasional bite of pizza, I hear the ripping crunch and then squish and crunch as I chew. Tom takes a swig of water from his water bottle.

5- General sound level and amount of sound activity: Sound level is very high as there is much sound activity including internal and external sounds with screams, paper rips, crinkling, and general movement. Sounds like everything’s falling apart.

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

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.: Meredith screaming, ripping paper, rip and crunch of pizza.

1. 3-31-2011, 7:08, NAB

2. Air conditioning unit, people walking around outside
3. Actors talking, stretching, Steph leading stretches, mumbles and groans and breaths of actors stretching
4. Broken sticky keyboard typing, neck cracking Ike talking to me
5. Medium/Loud, it’s calm but loud
6. Release
7. Steph leading stretches, breaths and groans, neck cracking

1- NAB Blackbox 2/22, around 5 PM

2- There is a lot of mumbling, talking amongst themselves, someone pretending to choke themselves.
3- A director is talking, guiding people through a scene.
4- People are whispering directly behind me, someone is coughing to my left.
5- The sound activity is low, the environment is mostly peaceful
6- Casual
7- To preserve the sound environment, we would need the various levels of mumbling and the director’s voice.