Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

1. Date: 4/17/20 – Time: 5:30pm – Location: My Living Room

2. Farthest from me, I can hear noises coming from the television in my parents’ bedroom upstairs, as well as water rapidly filling up the bathtub in my bathroom upstairs.

3. In a medium range, I can hear noises coming from the oven as it is being used to cook food.  Also, I can hear the toilet being flushed and water coming out of the faucet in the bathroom on the first floor.

4. Closest to me, I hear noises coming from the television in the living room and a constant sound coming from my phone to alert me with notifications.  Moreover, I can hear myself laughing at the content on the television.

5. The general sound level is very noisy due to there being a great amount of sound activity happening throughout my house.

6. One word to describe the “sound environment” is “bustling”.

7. Three sounds that are essential to the “sound environment” are the water filling up the bathtub, the noises coming from the television in my parents’ bedroom, and my phone constantly alerting me.

1) My Kitchen, 2/3/2017 at 12:47 AM
2) The pipes upstairs clanking every so often.
3) My sister upstairs, milling about in her room.
4) The soft hiss of the oven as it runs, and the clicks it makes every so often, including the pilot light reigniting in a soft “fwoosh”.
5) Very low; very little.
6) Muffled.
7) My sister milling about at a distance. The oven hissing. The pilot light’s fwoosh.