Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

Location: Laundry room of Enterprise Hall

Sounds: Washing machines are whirring and dryers are spinning away

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*

1. 2/18/16, 3:53pm, Netherlands Core Cafe
2. Farthest: low music playing in the area where you actually pick up your food, the sound of the turnstile as people go in
3. Medium: footsteps and random chatter as people pass by
4. Closest: the conversation of the students in the cafe, the loud obnoxious noise from the giant TV in the center
5. Sound Level: Relatively high
6. One word: Active
7. 3 sounds: TV noise, music, turnstile

Location: My dorm room by the windowsill facing the street

Sounds Heard: cars driving by on the road in front of the Netherlands, low hum from the heater

.  2/13/14, 401 Stuyvesant Hall, 10:48 pm

2.  Identify sounds farthest from you:

• the sound of the sink running in the bathroom
• voices from the other room
• feet walking in the common room

3.  Identify sounds at medium range from you:

• the tv playing in the common room
• the door to the suite opening and closing
• the my friend playing her piano

4.  Identify sounds closet to you:

• the music coming from the pandora station on the computer
• the rustle of the popcorn bag as my friend eats
• the crunch of the popcorn
• the clicking of my keys

5.  Describe the level of sound activity:  The level of activity is high.  There are a lot of people over, each doing their own thing, creating their own noises.

6.  One word to describe to describe the sound environment: Fun

7.  Three sounds that make the sound environment:

• The music
• the tv sounds
• the piano

1. 1/29/2014, 1:08 AM, Home on Front St.

2. Identify the sounds farthest from you: Four housemates upstairs, their muffled voices above my ceiling. They laugh and scream with excitement, not a care in the world. I hear very faint music as well, so faint, in fact, I’m not quite sure what it is. The water in the sink upstairs goes on occasionally and reminds me our water pressure is harsh when the facet is turned up high and tonight, it seems to roar like thunder.

3. Identify the sounds at medium range: As the housemates joke around and enjoy themselves, I hear the sounds of a loud, squishy mattress, on a rickety, old hardwood floor. The floor creaks beneath them every time they jump off the bed and walk down the hall to another room, and I can hear it ALL from my room down below.

4. Identify the sounds closest to you: The vaguely rhythmic clicking of the radiators in my room as the heat attempts to warm this frigid night. Someone is in the bathroom outside my room. The water from the faucet is much softer and I hear the opening and closing of the medicine cabinet.

5. General sound level and activity: It feels rather chaotic in the house tonight. It seems I’m the only person with homework. The feeling seems to intensify with every creaky footstep, every rustle in the bed above my head, every muffled laugh. Even the heater in my room seems to tease me by assuring me I’ll get no silence tonight. While most of the sounds are muffled through the ceiling and the walls, they are all too familiar and are indicative of an active, loud house of college students. The sound of every footstep on the old hardwood is like nails on a chalkboard. The worst.

6. One word to describe the sound environment: Distracting.

7. 3 essentials sounds to the sound environment: The creaking hardwood above me, the constant clicking of the radiator in my room, the near constant rustling, tossing in the bed in the room above me.

2/17/2012 at 9:30 in the morning
A noisy air vent on the 13th floor bathroom in Estabrook Tower.