Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

Location: Walking outside from library to Bit’s n Bytes.

Sounds heard: Talking, footsteps, police sirens, snow crunching, mild wind.

1. Walking out of Nassau Hall on Wednesday, March 15
2. Sounds Heard: My footsteps crunching on the snow and ice

1. Outside the Hofstra Fitness Center
2. Water rushing, snow crunching

Outside of Estabrook

Crunching snow and ice, wind, faint laughter and talking

The gazebo and pond outside the Mack Arena

Walking on snow, running water in the pond, Jess’s “aight”

1. February 9th, 11:36am, Netherlands South
2. Far Sounds: Snow plow attempting to clear the parking lot, snow crackling under cars out on Oak street
3. Medium Sounds: Students crunching snow as they walk to get food, students talking
4. Close Sounds: the snow deafening all other sounds around me, the wind howling through the air and the trees
5. Sound Level: Loud
6. Environment: Apocalyptic
7. Essential Sounds: Wind, Crunching Snow, Snow Plow

Recorded inside my room which is on the 12 floor of a high rise. You can hear the snowflakes hitting the window, which was louder than I expected.

Behind Phillips Hall at approximately 11:30am on Sunday, February 7th, 2016.

Sounds include: The whine of the furnace, the dripping of snow, and the drone of the turnpike.

1. Walking home 2/19/2015

2. Farthest – cars on the turnpike, cars on Westbury Ave grinding their tires through salt and ice, a NICE bus starting up and pulling away, car horns in the far distance

3. Medium range – boots crunching on the snow, my friends walking ahead of me talking, slipping of shoes on the ice, a thud as someone falls down, and subsequent assorted curses

4. Close range – i become intensely aware of my own labored breathing, my waterproof coat zip zip zipping as i walk, my keys rattling in my backpack, the zippers on my backpack cling-ing together

5. A modern-day arctic exploration. The sounds of the ice and snow crunching and cracking, as well as the sounds my friends and I made as we struggled to walk home really contributed to the “Long Island Ice Hell” of it all.

6. One word – frigid

7. Three essential sounds – snow crunching, ice scraping, people breathing