Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

3/7/24 – 8:15PM – Pride Den

1. Sounds farthest from me: people on the other side of the room talking, utensils clacking together, chairs moving  
2. Sounds at a medium range from me: The backing tracks of the song being performed, the percussion instruments, people snapping during the performance, piano  
3. Sounds closest to me: the performer singing, my friends whispering next to me, the bass line, the applause 
4. Sound level and sound activity: the sound level is relatively high due to the speakers projecting the instruments but also the performer’s voice. The sound activity is high because there are a lot of people in the room making noise i.e. the singing, playing instruments, talking, clapping. There is a lot happening at once. 
5. One word description: Musical 
6. 3 essential sounds: the bassline, the performer’s voice, percussion

Location: the middle of the student center (during common hour).

The sounds heard in this clip consists of people walking/talking about, my friend (who was sitting across from me) singing, my friend clicking her pen, my drink being swirled around, my papers/trash being crushed and moved around, and quiet thuds or booms of things being placed/dropped in the very background.

Location and Time: 4:02 pm, upstairs living room at Broadfield

Sounds Heard:

• Joey rustling through a bag of buttons
• Car driving by
• Anna lightly singing/humming “As It Was” 
• Joey moving a bag on the floor and dropping the heavy button press into it
• Joey crumpling a piece of paper

Location: Table at Starbucks in the Student Center, 12:46 pm

Sounds Heard: 

• “The Greatest” by Sia playing 
• Avery (who gave permission to be recorded) singing/humming/and scatting along to the song 
• Avery talking
• Chairs moving 
• Food being unwrapped
• Keys clanging on a table nearby
• Muffled talking and laughing of people in the student center
• Beeping of Starbucks microwave 
• People talking at the table next to us

1. Date: 3/31/20 – Time: 12:30pm – Location: My Home (Carmel, NY)
2. The farthest sound from me is my mom talking downstairs to a friend.
3. In the medium range of sound, I can hear my sister playing the piano and singing below me.
4. The closest sound from me is my phone playing music next to me.
5. The general sound level is more loud and the amount of sound activity is a lot since the sounds are loud enough to cause a ruckus.
6. One word to describe the “sound environment” is pleasant.
7. 3 things that are essential to the “sound environment” is my mom talking downstairs, my sister playing the piano and singing, and my phone playing music.

1. 2/20/2020, 8:05PM, Monroe Hall 205 (Acapella group rehearsal)
2. Footsteps walking down hallway, & voices in hallway.
3. Classroom door opening/closing & footsteps walking towards front of classroom.
4. Water bottles opening, sheet music shuffling, piano, singing warm-ups, & people talking.
5. The sound level is pretty high since I was right next to the piano and our singing voices were amplified from the acoustics of the room.  Despite a few sounds other than singing, the amount of sound activity was low since we were all singing the same thing. 
6. Unified.
7. Singing, sheet music shuffling, & the piano.

1. 3/9/17, 11:20  Hague House Lounge
2.  heater hum, distant laughing
3. girl singing
4. music played on a laptop nearby, excessive tapping on a laptop nearby to the music
5. constant noise but at a medium level
6. discord
7. excessive tapping on a laptop nearby to the music, music played on a laptop nearby, and girl singing

1. 2/16/17 9:00 PM Hague House, Netherlands
2. Radiator hum, door opening/closing sound
3. water pouring into a water bottle
4. singing, music coming from laptop
5. Loud, she really goes for it when she sings.
6. Powerful
7. Singing, music from laptop, water pouring into a water bottle

Location/Time: walking from Estabrook to the Student Center, 2/7/17 6:30pm

Sounds Heard: wind, me walking on wet pavement, birds, someone singing the words “isn’t she love”

Location: Enterprise RA Office

Sounds Heard: You can hear the sounds of the music director as she’s discussing certain issues for the Makin’ Treble concert coming up on Sunday and you can hear the group as they begin to sing an arrangement. You can hear the soloist as she joins in and, at the very end, you can hear the sound of my voice as I begin to sing the arrangement as well.