Hofstra Drama 20 – Sound for the Theatre

2/13/2020

Farthest Sound- The dripping of rain from the gutters on the roof, and of the rain falling down into the drain, a large truck just passed by as well as a plane.

Medium Distance- Students walking back into their dorm, there is a path right next to my. window that people tend to use quite often.

Closest Distance- The rap tap tapping of my key board, as well as the pop pop popping of my highly messed up back/spine. 

General Sound Level- a good sound level to work comfortably in, not to loud but not deathly quite either.

Sound Description- Quite… Perhaps too quiet… 

Important Sounds- Rain dripping and hitting the ground, cars going vroom on the street, my typing as I’m writing this, and students walking outside. 

1. April 21st, Subway in Netherlands Core, 12pm

2. Farthest: students yelling and shuffling around, cashier

3. Medium: people ordering, food being made and wrapped

4. Closest: Microwave, people talking, air conditioner

Sound Level: Loud

One word: chaotic

Three sounds: students, microwave, air conditioner

Location: Student Center by the Unispan

Sounds heard: chatter, walking, someone saying “Yes” repeatedly

3/4/16 12am walking outside Nassau/suffolk dorms

Sounds: footsteps, car engines, wind, students yelling

1. Location: Dempster Hall
2. Sounds: Cindy Rosenthal lecture, papers turning, students, chairs, distant classical music from next door

1. 2/3/2016, 12:45 pm, Bits & Bites
2. Farthest: Random chatter between the students at the window about their various lives and days
3. Medium: The cash register lady asking a customer what item they ordered from the burger bar, two girls talking about how they are upset because the milkshake machine is broken, a student shaking their salad to mix it up
4. Closest: A girl at the salad bar next to me telling the worker behind the bar what she wants in her salad, my own conversation with a friend behind me in line
5. Sound Level: High, there were many people and a lot of conversations going on
6. One word: Lively
7. 3 words: conversation, cash register beeping, shaking salads

1. 2/6/14, 10:43, Hammer Lab

2. Identify sounds farthest from you.

• The sounds of mouse clicks and keyboard pressing from the computer lab side of the room
• Varied whispers and conversations from the next room over
• Footsteps against the floor as someone with a heavy step changes tables

3. Identify sounds at medium range.

• A conversation about shoes held by the girls three tables over
• The sound of the PridePrinter pushing out new pages
• Someone’s keys dangling as they swipe into the lab

4. Identify sounds closet to you.

• The sound of my friend turning the pages of her Shakespeare play
• The vibration of her phone as she receives a notification
• The crunch of a snack bar as the person next to me enjoys their snack
• The clicking of my fingers against my MacBook keyboard

5. One word to describe the “sound environment”: Hardworking

7. Sounds essential to the environment.

• The keyboard clicks
• the turning pages
• the PridePrinter whirring

1- DATE-TIME-LOCATION of the sound environment
Thursday, January 30th, 2014. 2:36 p.m. EST. Room 107 Emily Lowe Hall, AKA “The Psibrary”

2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
>The whirring of a distant machine, possibly something in relation to the heating.
>Footsteps from way upstairs, they’re more of a shuffle than a step.
>A professor speaking. The noise is way too muffled to even determine the gender.

3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
>There’s a door that keeps slamming, the slam consists of two very rapid clicks, one for the collision of the door and the other for the locking mechanism.
>Voices in the next room over, students. The voices are orderly, not one speaks over the other.
>A stapler has been being used consistently for almost two minutes at this point. Followed by the occasional ‘Ah, shit’ from Angela.

4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
>The noises nearest myself are very quiet.
>The clock ticks in a manner that makes you feel like it’s working too hard. The sound of a marker on an easel from the updated Act Facts of the day.
>Another clock is ticking, and it’s slightly out of sync with the other.
>A very calm tapping, something just short of a water droplet on the ceiling.

5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
The sound level is a few steps above eerily silent. The voices at medium range allow for a relaxing background that isn’t all that unnerving.
The activity can be described as dispersed, free, very thinned out, and passing.

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

7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
>Out of sync clocks
>Footsteps
>The orderly voices of students

2012-04-01 14:09 next to CPK in the student center

Refrigerator display & Vending machines vibrating

People moving around, talking, coughing, etc

:01 Finger brushing mic

:15 woman’s keys as she walks across the room

:19 plates being stacked

:25 somebody hitting tray against the counter to knock remaining food into trash.

1. 2/2/12, 6:33 PM, Bits and Bytes

2. Chairs moving, murmuring, doors opening and closing, a cart like thing, clapping, and the ringing of a cell phone.

3. The TV playing classical music, more talking; talking that is more audible than the murmuring, and laughing.

4. Crinkling of a water bottle, the conversation of the groups at the tables behind and in front of mine, and the walking of heels.

5. Loud.  There is much sound activity, being that it is right around dinner time.

6. Rambunctious.

7. The speaking/murmuring, the doors opening and closing, and the TV blaring.