Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

1 – 3/24/14 – 3:00pm – Cancer Center (Clinic), Stony Brook University Hospital

2 – Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
-An episode of Spongebob playing on one of the TVs in the treatment room.
-A medicine cart’s wheels squeaking as a nurse pushes it down the hallway.
-A child crying in a nearby examination room.

3 – Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
-The nurses’ footsteps as they walk toward examination rooms or the treatment room.
-One of the doctors speaking to a patient.

4 – Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
-The beeping and drone sounds that the blood pressure machine makes.
-The sliding of the device that measures my height.
-The pinging of the scale.
-Sounds of the doors being opened and shut.

5 – Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
-There was a medium sound level in the clinic during my routine checkup. Most of the sounds I heard began and ended quickly, such as the beeping sounds and the door shutting. The cart’s squeaking and the child crying were the sounds that could be heard above everything else. In terms of activity, the sounds were occurring at a quick and steady pace.

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

7 – Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
-The sounds of the blood pressure machine.
-The medicine cart’s wheels squeaking.
-The pinging of the scale.