Staging Sound. Reflecting theatre music and sound design

Find the book we are discussing here:

More on Deena Kaye: https://www.deenakaye.com

More on Jim LeBrecht: https://www.jimlebrecht.com

Konstantinos Thomaidis is Associate Professor in Voice, Theatre & Perofrmance at the Communications, Drama & Film Department, and Director of the MA Theatre Practice at the University of Exeter, UK. He is an actor/director/musician and researcher with a primary interest in voice. Since 2007, his research has focused on the cultural politics of voice pedagogy and the development of methodologies for vocal practice-research: for practising and understanding voice as emergent, processual, generative and disruptive.

This episode discusses this film, which is called "Mother Company"

Further information on Konstantinos can be found here:

Participants in this episode's discussion are (in order of appearance):

Karolin Killig

Constantin John

Nils Ostendorf

Rainer Süßmilch

Katrin Schüler-Springorum

Fiete Wachholtz

Fabian Kalker

The Open Letter can be found at:

Today’s episode is part II of a launch conversation about the new edited volume Music and Sound in European Theatre. Practices, Performances, Perspectives. (Routledge 2025)

We introduce you to the chapters and discuss some of their connections and implications.

The guests on this show are:

All sounds played in between sections of the podcast were part of the performance „Inside Yellow Sound“, which Maria Kapsali co-created and has written about in her chapter. Sound Composition by Nikos Stavropoulos and Technology Design by Kingsley Ash.

Today’s episode is part I of a launch conversation about the new edited volume Music and Sound in European Theatre. Practices, Performances, Perspectives. (Routledge 2025)

We introduce you to the chapters and discuss some of their connections and implications.

The guests on this show are:

You can find more information about Matze's work and tour dates here:

More details on "Dionysos Stadt" (2018) are here:

The forthcoming production at the Wiener Festwochen will be announced here:

The briefly mentioned theatrophone has been discussed widely, such as here:

Leonie Persyn, is a dramaturg, performance maker and academic, who has just graduated from the Ghent University at the Department of Music, Visual Arts and Performance Studies supervised by Christine Stapert and Martine Huvenne. She was trained as a visual artist (Sint-Lucas, Antwerp) and as an Art historian (Ghent) and her PhD project is entitled THE SOUND OF A SHARED INTIMACY. A PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH INTO SOUND(ING) AND LISTENING IN PERFORMANCE PRACTICES. She defended her thesis in September 2024.

Lynne Kendrick works at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama as Reader for New Theatre Practices. In 2011 she and David co-edited a book entitled "Theatre Noise. The Sound of Performance" and in 2017 she published Theatre Aurality – a core text on audiences experience of sound-based theatre. She has also founded and directed theatre companies such as Camden People’s Theatre. Lynne was a member of the review committee of Leonie’s PhD and is thus also an early reader of her work.

Salomé Voegelin: https://www.salomevoegelin.net

Bad Weather (2017/2019): https://arturasbumsteinas.com/works/2017-3/badweather/

The full programme of the conference can be found here:

Biographies can be found at:

Dorothea Volz: https://www.theaterwissenschaft.uni-muenchen.de/personen2/lehrbeauftragte/volz_dorothea/index.html

Peter Kiefer: http://www.peter-kiefer.de. Images from projects he mentions can also be found on his website. In particular see:

Andrea Valle: https://andreavalle.org (Images from the project he talks about can be found here: https://www.cirma.unito.it/vep/)

Anna Ricke: https://www.muwi-detmold-paderborn.de/en/personen/mitarbeiterinnen-und-mitarbeiter/anna-ricke-ma

The full programme of the conference can be found here:

Biographies

Dr Anna R. Burzyńska (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) is an Adjunct Professor in the Drama and Theatre Department at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (where she received her PhD in 2010) and Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (during the 2022–3 academic year). Her main research interests are: contemporary European theatre, dance and music scene, radio art, Polish and German drama of the 19th-21st century. She is the editor of the journal “Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna”, theatre and music critic. Winner of the Kropka Competition for Music Critics (2014). Her book publications include The Classics and the Troublemakers: Theatre Directors from Poland(2008), Atlas anatomiczny Georga Büchnera (2022) and the edited volume Joined Forces: Audience Participation in Theatre (2016). As a dramaturg, she worked with Stefan Kaegi of Rimini Protokoll (audiowalk Skrót, czyli Krakau Files), Lars Jan of Early Morning Opera (The Institute of Memory (TIMe)) and Barbara Wysocka (The Death of Ophelia).