1. Sound analysis
Unit 70: Stage sound
design.
Sound installation & Musical theatre.

2. Musical Theatre Components
O Contains a prelude and encore
O Follows conventional/traditional appraoch
O Include motifs and motif development
O Live orchestra
O Sound effects
O Spoon Feeding the audience
O Includes non diegetic and diegetic sounds
O Underscore the action.

3. The Rocky Horror Picture
show.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 British-American
musical comedy horror. It's the weird and wonderful as newly
engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter a problem when they
car halts in the rain. They both look for contact only to find
themselves at the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter a transvestite.
Frank-N-Furter unveils his creation, a young man named Rocky
Horror, who fears the doctor and rejects his sexual advances.
When Frank-N-Furter announces that he is returning to the galaxy
Transylvania. Riff Raff the butler and Magenta the maid declare
that they have plans of their own.

4. Time Warp
O Spoon feeds the audience with a fast
rhythm and notes with a short attack and
sustain and decay to create a tense
atmosphere to underscore the action.
O Ambient mics could be used under floor
tiles but they don’t use them as its all pre-
recorded to create a better sound effect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phLmf1P
hB6Q

5. Bill Fontana.
Bill Fontana (born USA 1947) is an American
composer and artist who developed an international
reputation for his pioneering experiments in sound.
Since the early 70’s Fontana has used sound as a
sculptural medium to interact with and transform our
perceptions of visual and architectural spaces.

6. Speed of time 2008
O Environmental sounds- Wants you to know that there is music
all around us and wants you to just stop and listen.
O He puts different microphone recordings scattered around
London in churches and on top of buildings from far distances
to get bells and marching men of the acoustic life and
movements.
http://www.resoundings.org/Pages/Speeds
_of_Time_new.html
“Most people don't take snapshots of the
little things. The used Band-Aid, the guy at
the gas station, the wasp on the Jell-O. But
these are the things that make up the true
picture of our lives. People don't take
pictures of these things.”
One Hour Photo

7. Compare & Contrast
The time warp spoon feeds the audience by
using notes of the short attacks, sustain and
decay these notes inform the audience that they
are meant to feel tense which is backed up by
brad & Janet expressions, how ever the music is
major which is backed up by the rest of the cast’
expressions. How ever in Bill Fontana speed of
time, he uses displacement of sound, as he puts
sound in various places around London, where
the sounds wouldn’t normally be heard.

8. Compare & Contrast
Another component of musical theatre is sound
effects and these can be achieved through using
microphones or pre-recorded sounds. For example
when Columbia begins to tap dance, pre-recorded
sound is used. This could be used because they
want the audience to believe she is tap dancing and
want the audience to focus on the sound effect. How
ever to achieve this they also could of used Ambient
mics which would be place on the stage in order to
pick up the sound. How ever Bill Fontana uses a
network of micro phones in places such as, clock
towers as we here in speed of time. This enables the
audience to believe in the displacement as the
speakers are placed where the microphones picked
up the sounds effects.