Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

3/9/24 – 6:36 – My Bedroom

Farthest Sound : Cars driving on the freeway, Sound of Planes passing by

Medium Sound : Whirling of the wind, voices from the street

Closest : Raindrops hitting my closest window, housemates walking outside

Not much sound activity, minimal and generally quiest which makes it easier to pick up on the individual sounds

Description : Calming

Essential Sounds : Raindrops, Wind, Cars

Location: 4/15/2014, Vander Poel, 12:45 PM

Sounds Featured:  My Pandora station playing, the wind through my open window, the dull roar of the rain outside, the pages of the playbills I have on my walls blowing, the slap of me turning my clean PJ shirt outside in and folding it and my dresser drawers.

1 – 3/13/14 10:25PM- My dorm room

2 – Identify and list the sounds furthest  from you.

•  A car drives by the window
• A dog barking in the distance
• Sirens from a firetruck as it drives by

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

• The blower in the room, blowing cool air
• Niki, my roommate, clicking at his keyboard
• Niki, turning pages of his textbook

4 – Identify and list the sounds closest to you.

• The click of my neck as I turn my head
• Me clicking my laptop keys
• Someone knocking at the door (My bed is right near the door)
  

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

• The sound level in the room is very low.  Niki and I are both tired, so we are both sitting in silence as we do our work. Sound activity in the room is at a medium range, with all the sounds being heard are soft and hushed

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

• Serene

7 – Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.

• The blower
• The cars driving by the window
• The turning of the pages

1- DATE-TIME-LOCATION of the sound environment
>2.21.2014
>1:40 A.M.
>Nassau Room 607A

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
>The shower running in the background. The water sputters every 8-10 seconds. There’s a nice mixture of the soft tapping of the individual droplets and the sloshing splashes of the water that hits the body and falls to the ground.
>My roommate singing that one Avicii song about brothers or something.
>That one Avicii song about brothers or something is playing very very softly, probably because he doesn’t wanna wake the neighbors.

3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
>The soft blip-blips of my PC as I sit across the room from it, ignoring the continuous notifications on my game.
>The “whirr” of my PC’s fan, desperately trying to cool a machine that’s put in way too many hours a day.
>The news that’s on in the next room over, something about the olympics.

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
>My two suitemates playing a very intense online game, the sounds are a mixture of grunts, shouts, and the occasional profane exclamations of how “done they are with this motherf**kin’ game.”
>The crashes, explosions, slicing, clashing of metal, lion-like roars, and the occasional “An ally has been slain” from the games they are playing.
>My laptop making ‘boo-dwee’ tones as facebook notifications roll in in the group chat.

5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
>The sound level is on the very uncomfortable border between noisy and loud.
>The amount of activity is relatively high, or seemingly so with all the noise coming from the computers.

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

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 noises from the game.
>My suitemates shouting.
>The notifications from my facebook.

Location: In my room on my computer.
Sounds heard: Skyping with my parents, they were playing around with the camera and this had some sort of effect on the sound system, causing them to sound like demon chipmunks on my end of the conversation. Thought it made for a perfect field recording so I taped it on my phone. Sounds heard include their voices, during and after demonization, and my voice when I’m laughing and wondering what happened.

When I was sitting in my room this morning, I found this song on Youtube. My friend introduced me to this cover band, Boyce Avenue, a few months ago and I really like their music.  It is Katy Perry’s song “Teenage Dream” and I just came across this song today. Boyce Avenue sings it at a slower pace and uses a different voice range when hitting his notes.