Staging Sound. Reflecting theatre music and sound design

Staging Sound. Reflecting theatre music and sound design

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Staging Sound. Reflecting theatre music and sound design episodes

  • Writing about sonic experiences
    A conversation with Millie Taylor and Adrian Curtin

    Show notes

    The Research Project: https://www.en.cas.uni-muenchen.de/research_groups/current_rg/rg_roesner/index.html
    The Blog: https://theatermus.hypotheses.org

    Articles:

    Millie Taylor: ‘Exploring the Grain: The Sound of the Voice in Bruce Nauman’s Raw Materials’, Studies in Theatre and Performance 26/3 (2006), pp. 289-296. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1386/stap.26.3.289/3
    Adrian Curtin: ‚Recomposing Genet: Analysing the Musicality of Playing ‘The Maids’“ (2017): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10486801.2017.1298097

    Mentioned:

    • Naumann, Bruce: Raw Materials https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/bruce-nauman-1691/raw-material
    • Chion, Michel (1994), Audio-Vision. Sounds on Screen, New York: Columbia University Press.
    • Truax, Barry (1984), Acoustic communication, Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Pub. Corp.
    • Taylor Millie (2003), ‘Collaboration or conflict: Music and Lyrics by Brecht, Weill and Eisler’ Studies in Theatre and Performance Vol 23: 2, pp. 117-124.
    • Taylor Millie (2003), Humanity, Community and Excess: ‘Feel the flow’ in musical theatre performance. Inaugural Lecture at University of Winchester, 29 April 2013.
    • Roesner, David and Merlin, Bella (2018), ‚The Document as Music. Exploring the musicality of verbatim material in performance‘, Journal for Artistic Research, Vol. 15, 2018. https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.353508
    • Rost, Katharina (2017), Sounds that matter – Dynamiken des Hörens in Theater und Performance, Bielefeld: transcript.
    • Curtin, Adrian and Roesner, David (eds.) (2016), Sounds good. Special issue of Theatre and Performance Design, Autumn/Winter.
    • Kendrick, Lynne and Roesner, David (eds.) (2011), Theatre Noise. The Sound of Performance. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
    • Sterne, Jonathan (2003), The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction, Durham: Duke University Press.
    • Riedelsheimer, Thomas, Touch the Sound (Film). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424509/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
    • McGurk effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k8fHR9jKVM
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    Guests:

    Prof Dr Adrian Curtin
    is Associate Professor at University of Exeter. His research is wide ranging from modernism to contemporary orchestral theatre. In 2014 he published Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity. He also works as a theatre musician.
    https://drama.exeter.ac.uk/staff/curtin/

    Prof Dr Millie Taylor holds the Van den Ende Chair of the Musical at the University of Amsterdam. For almost 20 years she toured Britain and Europe as a freelance musical director in Musical theatre. I constantly use her and Dominic Symonds book Studying Musical Theatre (2014) in my course. More recently she has published Theatre Music and Sound at the RSC: Macbeth to Matilda (2018).

    https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/t/a/m.taylor2/m.taylor.html?cb

    56 min
  • Sonic memories
    looking into the text archives of Adrian Curtin, Pieter Verstraete and David Roesner

    Show notes

    About the research project: https://www.en.cas.uni-muenchen.de/research_groups/current_rg/rg_roesner/index.html
    Blog: https://theatermus.hypotheses.org

    Articles:

    Adrian Curtin: “Recomposing Genet: Analysing the Musicality of playing ‘the maids’“ (2017): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10486801.2017.1298097
    Pieter Verstraete: ”Radical Vocality, Auditory Distress and Disembodied Voice: The Resolution of the Voice-Body in the Wooster Group’s La Didone“ (2011) https://books.google.de/books?id=MDwsBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA82&hl=de&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
    David Roesner: “Dancing in the Twilight – On the Borders of Music and the Scenic“ (2013) https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/21944/

    Mentioned:

    Franziska Baumann: http://www.franziskabaumann.ch/de/
    Michel Serres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Serres
    Stephen Connor: http://stevenconnor.com
    La Didone: https://thewoostergroup.org/la-didone
    Chris Balme on Intermediality: https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13098/1/Balme_13098.pdf
    Victor Turner on Liminality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality
    Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancer_in_the_Dark
    Eraritjaritjaka (Heiner Goebbels): https://www.heinergoebbels.com/en/archive/works/complete/view/11/info
    Max Richter: The New Four Seasons: https://www.maxrichter-fourseasons.com/de/
    R. Murray Schafer: Schizophonia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophonia
    Vincent Meelberg: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228813142_Sonic_Strokes_and_Musical_Gestures-The_Difference_between_Musical_Affect_and_Musical_Emotion
    Dylan Robinson: Hungry Listening: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/hungry-listening
    Ensemble Modern: https://www.ensemble-modern.com

    Guests:

    Prof Dr Adrian Curtin
    is Associate Professor at University of Exeter. His research is wide ranging from modernism to contemporary orchestral theatre. In 2014 he published Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity. He also works as a theatre musician.
    https://drama.exeter.ac.uk/staff/curtin/

    Dr Pieter Verstraete is Assistant Professor at University of Groningen and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Free University Berlin. He published his first book on “Auditory Distress and Aurality in Contemporary Music Theatre (2009), later co-edited a collection on “Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality” (Routledge, 2014). Having worked extensively in Turkey, he also focuses on post-migrant theatre, artists in exile, and has a book forthcoming on “Theatre, Performance and Commemoration: Staging Crisis, Memory and Nationhood”

    https://pieterverstraete.com

    1 hr 9 min
  • Sonic Bliss
    Project launch with guests

    About the research project: https://www.en.cas.uni-muenchen.de/research_groups/current_rg/rg_roesner/index.html

    Blog: https://theatermus.hypotheses.org

    Books mentioned:

    Theatermusik: https://www.theaterderzeit.de/buch/theatermusik/
    Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137324795
    The Frequency of Imagination: https://pieterverstraete.com/research-projects/#jp-carousel-64
    Theatre Music and Sound at the RSC https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-95222-2
    Sound Effect: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/sound-effect-9781350236004/
    Theatre Aurality: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-45233-7_1
    Aural/Oral Dramaturgies: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003096337/aural-oral-dramaturgies-duška-radosavljević
    Theater mit Musik: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-2432-8/theater-mit-musik/

    Dead Centre https://www.deadcentre.org/chekhovs-first-play-1

    Krystian Lupa: Kalkwerk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqHxs_LJQgo
    Wooster Group: To You, the Birdie (Phèdre). Audioclip provided by the Wooster Group – many thanks!
    Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Foi: https://www.lesballetscdela.be/en/projects/productions/foi/credits/#
    Artists in the Clip are: Capilla Flamenca and Joanna Dudley
    RSC: Troilus and Cressida (1985): https://www.rsc.org.uk/troilus-and-cressida/past-productions/in-focus-howard-davies-1985
    Nuffield Theatre: And a Nightingale Sang (1995) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_a_Nightingale_Sang
    Michail Marmarinos: A National Hymn (2002) https://youtu.be/k2khbh9RLLA

    Research Fellows:

    Prof. Dr. Ross Brown is a composer, musician and sound designer and Emeritus Professor of Sound at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He is the author of Sound. A Reader (2010) and “Sound Effect. The Theatre We Hear” (2020).
    https://www.cssd.ac.uk/staff-profiles/prof-ross-brown

    Dr Anna R. Burzyńska

    is an adjunct professor of theatre in the faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and works as an academic, critic and dramaturg. She has published widely on radio art and theatre makers such as Heiner Goebbels, Christoph Marthaler, and Marta Górnicka.

    Prof Dr Adrian Curtin

    is Associate Professor at University of Exeter. His research is wide ranging from modernism to contemporary orchestral theatre. In 2014 he published Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity. He also works as a theatre musician.
    https://drama.exeter.ac.uk/staff/curtin/

    Dr Lynne Kendrick works at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama as Reader for New Theatre Practices. In 2011 she co-edited a book entitled Theatre Noise. The Sound of Performance. 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.

    Prof. Dr. Ursula Kramer is a musicologist at the University of Mainz with a particular research expertise on Schauspielmusik, which led to one of the very few German publications in this area: her edited volume Theater mit Musik. 400 Jahre Schauspielmusik im europäischen Theater from 2014.

    https://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/personen/prof-dr-ursula-kramer/

    Tamara Yasmin Quick is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bayreuth, having just finished her work on the DFG Project “Theatre music today as a cultural practice“ at the LMU Munich. She is in the process of finishing her PhD entitled Musical Embodiment – Live-Musicking on the contemporary theatre stage. Corporeal processes of performative identity formation. She also works as a dramaturg.

    https://www.theapolis.de/de/profil/tamara-yasmin-quick

    Dr Duška Radosavjlević

    Is an academic, critic, dramaturg with Serbian roots, a long presence in the UK and currently based in Lund. She has worked on Ensemble Theatre(s) and most recently published an extensive website auralia.space and subsequent monograph on Aural / Oral Dramaturgies. Theatre in the Digital Age (2022).
    https://www.cssd.ac.uk/staff-profiles/dr-duska-radosavljevic

    Julia H. Schröder

    is a musicologist specialising in contemporary art music, sound art, sound studies, music and dance as well as sound and theatre. Her DFG postdoc project explores “theatre sounds” (Theatergeräusche) at Technical University Berlin. In 2015 she edited a book on sound/music in theatre focusing on Hans Peter Kuhn’s work for Robert Wilson and on Leigh Landy’s work for Heiner Müller.
    https://www.udk-berlin.de/en/person/julia-h-schroeder/

    Prof Dr Millie Taylor holds the Van den Ende Chair of the Musical at the University of Amsterdam. For almost 20 years she toured Britain and Europe as a freelance musical director in Musical theatre. I constantly use her and Dominic Symonds book Studying Musical Theatre (2014) in my course. More recently she has published Theatre Music and Sound at the RSC: Macbeth to Matilda (2018).

    https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/t/a/m.taylor2/m.taylor.html?cb

    Dr Konstantinos Thomaidis is Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre & Performance at the University of Exeter, UK. His publications include Voice Studies: Critical Approaches to Process, Performance and Experience” (2015), Theatre & Voice (2017) and Time and Performer Training (2019). He is also a practitioner and has worked as actor, director and musician.

    https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/drama/staff/thomaidis/

    Dr Pieter Verstraete is Assistant Professor at University of Groningen and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Free University Berlin. He published his first book on “Auditory Distress and Aurality in Contemporary Music Theatre (2009), later co-edited a collection on “Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality” (Routledge, 2014). Having worked extensively in Turkey, he also focuses on post-migrant theatre, artists in exile, and has a book forthcoming on “Theatre, Performance and Commemoration: Staging Crisis, Memory and Nationhood”

    https://pieterverstraete.com

    1 hr 27 min
  • Introducing "Staging Sound"
    Trailer

    About the research project:

    https://www.en.cas.uni-muenchen.de/researchgroups/currentrg/rg_roesner/index.html

    Fellows:

    Prof. Dr. Ross Brown is a composer, musician and sound designer and Emeritus Professor of Sound at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He is the author of Sound. A Reader (2010) and “Sound Effect. The Theatre We Hear” (2020).
    https://www.cssd.ac.uk/staff-profiles/prof-ross-brown

    Dr Anna R. Burzyńska

    is an adjunct professor of theatre in the faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and works as an academic, critic and dramaturg. She has published widely on radio art and theatre makers such as Heiner Goebbels, Christoph Marthaler, and Marta Górnicka.

    Prof Dr Adrian Curtin

    is Associate Professor at University of Exeter. His research is wide ranging from modernism to contemporary orchestral theatre. In 2014 he published Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity. He also works as a theatre musician.
    https://drama.exeter.ac.uk/staff/curtin/

    Dr Lynne Kendrick works at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama as Reader for New Theatre Practices. In 2011 she co-edited a book entitled Theatre Noise. The Sound of Performance. 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.

    Prof. Dr. Ursula Kramer is a musicologist at the University of Mainz with a particular research expertise on Schauspielmusik, which led to one of the very few German publications in this area: her edited volume Theater mit Musik. 400 Jahre Schauspielmusik im europäischen Theater from 2014.

    https://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/personen/prof-dr-ursula-kramer/

    Tamara Yasmin Quick is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bayreuth, having just finished her work on the DFG Project “Theatre music today as a cultural practice“ at the LMU Munich. She is in the process of finishing her PhD entitled Musical Embodiment – Live-Musicking on the contemporary theatre stage. Corporeal processes of performative identity formation. She also works as a dramaturg.

    https://www.theapolis.de/de/profil/tamara-yasmin-quick

    Dr Duška Radosavjlević

    Is an academic, critic, dramaturg with Serbian roots, a long presence in the UK and currently based in Lund. She has worked on Ensemble Theatre(s) and most recently published an extensive website auralia.space and subsequent monograph on Aural / Oral Dramaturgies. Theatre in the Digital Age (2022).
    https://www.cssd.ac.uk/staff-profiles/dr-duska-radosavljevic

    Dr Julia H. Schröder

    is a musicologist specialising in contemporary art music, sound art, sound studies, music and dance as well as sound and theatre. Her DFG postdoc project explores “theatre sounds” (Theatergeräusche) at Technical University Berlin. In 2015 she edited a book on sound/music in theatre focusing on Hans Peter Kuhn’s work for Robert Wilson and on Leigh Landy’s work for Heiner Müller.
    https://www.udk-berlin.de/en/person/julia-h-schroeder/

    Prof Dr Millie Taylor holds the Van den Ende Chair of the Musical at the University of Amsterdam. For almost 20 years she toured Britain and Europe as a freelance musical director in Musical theatre. I constantly use her and Dominic Symonds book Studying Musical Theatre (2014) in my course. More recently she has published Theatre Music and Sound at the RSC: Macbeth to Matilda (2018).

    https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/t/a/m.taylor2/m.taylor.html?cb

    Dr Konstantinos Thomaidis is Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre & Performance at the University of Exeter, UK. His publications include Voice Studies: Critical Approaches to Process, Performance and Experience” (2015), Theatre & Voice (2017) and Time and Performer Training (2019). He is also a practitioner and has worked as actor, director and musician.

    https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/drama/staff/thomaidis/

    Dr Pieter Verstraete is Assistant Professor at University of Groningen and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Free University Berlin. He published his first book on “Auditory Distress and Aurality in Contemporary Music Theatre (2009), later co-edited a collection on “Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality” (Routledge, 2014). Having worked extensively in Turkey, he also focuses on post-migrant theatre, artists in exile, and has a book forthcoming on “Theatre, Performance and Commemoration: Staging Crisis, Memory and Nationhood”

    https://pieterverstraete.com

    2 min

About Staging Sound. Reflecting theatre music and sound design

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This podcast accompanies the research project "The Sound of Theatre", supported by the Centre for Advances Studies at the University of Munich. We will explore questions around the current research in this field of study, we will have conversations with artists and discussions about performances, and we will record presentations and papers that come out of our various cooperations.