Week 3: Sound (West)
Sound can be incredibly evocative and suggest Time and Space without the need for visuals.
Sound can be narrative. Sound can be recognizable.
Sound enters our bodies. Unlike any other external stimuli, Sound actually has to enter our bodies and is felt and understood internally. So Sound is physical. It enters our brains and produces images, memory, story, mood, and atmosphere.
Sound can be Diegetic or Non-Diegetic. Live or Recorded. Literal or Figurative
Sound is Tempo, Pitch, Dynamic, Silence, Timbre, Shape, Gesture, Architecture, Repetition, Kinesthetic Response.
Emotional, Atmospheric, or Quotidian.
Sound can NOT fit.
Sound can comment on or be an obstacle to.
Daniel Gosset - Sound - Act IV Ending
Act IV sound sketching.
Its better to hear with headphones and be careful of how loud your volume is.
The Sound of Cristobal Act 2 Scene Lopahin and Luova.
This is if you want to have an idea or help of the text but you didn’t need to read at the time you’re watching the video... enjoy.
Liubov: Oh my sins! I've always squandered money without a thought like some madwoman, and then I married a man who did nothing but run up debts. My husband died of champagne, he was a terrible drinker. Then I had the misfortune to fall in love and take up with someone else just at the moment when... and this was my first punishment, like a blow to the head- It was here - here in this river, my little boy drowned, and I went abroad, I went away as far as I could go - I meant never to return, to see this river ever again, I shut my eyes and fled, not knowing where I was going, and he came after me, he wouldn’t give up, he was merciless. I bought a little house near Menton when he fell ill there, and for the next three years I had no rest day or night, he wore me out, my soul dried up. Then last year when the house had to go to pay the debts, I went to Paris, and there he robbed me of everything, he threw me over and went off with another woman, and I tried to poison myself, It was all so stupid and humiliating. And all of a sudden I knew I had to come back to Russia, to my home, to my daughter. Oh God, forgive me, forgive my sins! Don’t punish me anymore! I got this from Paris this morning. He asks me to forgive him and implores me to go back. Isn’t that music I can hear?
Sound_Auction_JK You do not need an earpiece to listen to this but using one would definitely be good for your listening experience.
This creation is a collaboration between Karin and Jitation.
The text sung by the woman is from the monologue at the beginning of Act 3, it is sung in Thai:
But where I'm from and who I am, I really don't know. I don't know anything. Papa and Mama died
The text delivered by the man is a mix and match of words in the monologue towards the end of Act 3, where Lopakhin is ecstatic cause he bought the Cherry Orchard.
Limidimonimocheeeeeee....bye.
Crenshaw - Sound - Page 81 Tom Stoppard's Translation. My blocking/Stage directions.
Alternate link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DA9cwOch5h7wek_UdaFkEgNf_gFJx_Wk/view?usp=sharing
FIRS:
Locked. They've gone...
(He sits on the divan)
Forgot all about me. Never mind. I'll have a little sit down here. And Leonid Andreich, I'll be bound, hasn't put on his fur coat, gone out in his light overcoat. (sighs) I never looked to see. These youngsters.
(During the above, he makes his way off stage right. Slowly. The sound of a gramophone appears. He makes his way back to divan. He mumbles something which cannot be made out. )
I'll just lie down for a bit. No strength left, you haven't, you've nothing left, nothing. Ekh, you...noodle.
(FIRS lies motionless)
(A distant sound, as though from the sky, is heard, the sound of a breaking string, dying away, sad. Silence descends, and the only thing to be heard, far away in the orchard, is the thudding of an axe against a tree.)
(Then, the distant sound of the train approaching)
(Curtain)
🍒 orchard but is low budget during dia de Muertos in méxico - Sergio very last scene, Liuvob says goodbye
Karla - Day break, the sun will rise soon. (Sound)
(in order of appearance)
Liubov - Rebecca Kent
Pishchik - Samuel DeMuria
Varya - Shimali DeSilva
Lopahkin - Anthony Brown
Gayev - Dario Ladani Sanchez
Act 3 - After Yepikhodov leaves
Deb - CherryOrchard Act1 wk3sound wrong title on video (says TIME) , Lophakin is telling them what he feels must happen in ACT 1 and Congrats! they are Saved!
- they feel differently
Waterstone Sound Week 3 Act 2.1, Yephikhodov exploration, p.32, Stoppard Translation
