Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

Date: February 11, 2022

Location and Time: ABP on Hofstra Campus, 3:05 pm

Far Sounds: clanging of replacing soup containers, ABP door squeaking open, bathroom door opening (heavier metal sound)

Medium Sounds: Sounds from video playing on woman’s phone sitting at a table farther away, plastic bottle dropping on the ground, keys clanging 

Close Sounds: rustling unwrapping of sandwich paper, pair of people sitting at booth to my right talking, laughing, and signing, radio music playing over speaker, chair scooting closer to table, Nicole talking, me chewing (internal), twisting water bottle open and closed, metal water bottle hitting and sliding on the table, Nicole’s fingers tapping on table, my feet tapping on the floor 

Sound Description/Level: Fairly loud, though there aren’t that many people in here they are engaged in enthusiastic conversations, the music is playing quite audibly

One Word: Lively

Most Important Sounds: Music, people talking, and doors opening/closing

Location: My friend’s car

Sounds In Clip: My friends talking to each other and laughing; One of my friends singing; The radio playing a song; The wheels of the car riding down the open road

I-95 toward Bridgeport, March 15, 2019, 8 pm

Far: police car with sirens on the other side of the highway

Medium: whoosh as other cars pass

Close: radio in the background (the way words are incomprehensible when you’re not really listening), tires against the road, general hum of the engine

Sound level: relatively high, sound coming from everywhere

One word: moving

Essential sounds: police sirens, radio, engine

1. February 16, 2017. 6:30 p.m. – Inside car on hempstead turnpike
2. Close Sounds: Radio on low, blinker
3. Medium Sounds: People talking walking on sidewalk
4. Far Sounds: Car horn
5. Sound Level: Medium
6. Environment: Calm
7. Three Essential Sounds: Radio, blinker, voices

1. 4/7/16, 4:00pm car drive on hempstead turnpike with open windows
2. Farthest sounds: pedestrians yelling, beeping cross machines
3. Medium sounds: car’s motor, car’s break, things moving around in car
4. Closest sound: Car’s radio, wind pressure through window
5. Sound description: fast-paced
6. important sounds: motor, radio, wind, pedestrians

1. 3/4/16, 12:05 am, inside my minivan
2. Farthest: Engine
3. Medium: Windshield wipers, heater
4. Closest: Radio playing “Take a look at my girlfriend”
5. Sound level: Medium
6. One Word: Van
7. 3 sounds: Engine, windshield wipers, radio

1 – 3/13/14 – 5:45pm – Northern State Parkway

2 – Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
-Someone sounding their car horn as another driver cuts in front of them.
-The tires of a car squealing.

-3 – Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
-The back door locks clicking shut.
-Something sliding in the trunk.
-The car’s engine running smoothly.

4 – Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
-The directionals clicking on and off.
-The DJ speaking on the radio to his audience.
-The car heater circulating air loudly and quickly.

5 – Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
-The car ride home was pretty loud with different sounds happening all at once. The car heater and radio are what provided most of the loudness, while sounds such as the directionals and car horn simply add to the sound level and activity.

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

7 – Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
-The engine running.
-The clicking of the directionals.
-The car horn.

1. February 24, 2012 at 11:00pm, inside a stuffed car
2. Cars passing by.
3. Air blowing against the car, the sound of the tires against the asphalt, the engine running.
4. Female voices talking over each other, my own voice, the radio.
5. The environment is very busy with conversation and music, with a very constant smooth background of the road and tires and blowing air.
6. Return
7. The female voices, the radio, and the sound of tires on the ground.

1.  Wednesday February 15th at 4pm in the News Hub at WRHU – Hofstra’s Radio Station

2.  The sounds farthest away from me are people chatting in the hall-since the door to the news hub is open and I can hear a door opening and closing outside the room

3.  The sounds that are at medium range are people typing on the computers and people chatting inside the news hub about what stories they are writing today

4.  The sound that is closest to me is the radio.  88.7 WRHU is playing in the news hub on the television that is right above the seat I am sitting in.

5.  There is a lot of commotion going on in the news hub. Since the radio is on and there are many different conversations going on in the news hub, people have the tendency to talk louder and above everyone else.  So the noise level is relatively high. 

6. “Rambunctious”

7.  Radio, chattering in the background, and the sound of people typing on the computers.

1- 3/10/2011 11:40 AM Parking Lot 2C (in front of Weller hall)

– Sit, close eyes and allow the sounds around you to envelope you, listen for all of the sound in your environment.

2- Airplanes overhead, That siren sound from the Uniondale Fire Department
3- Cars on california ave, Scattered on campus conversation, wind rustling the trees
4- Idling car in front of me, My breathing, my radio in my pocket
5- Lots of sound activity, but few overbearing sounds. High-medium sound level.
6- Business as usual
7- Idling car, my radio, the siren