Theatre noise : the sound of performance
This book is a timely contribution to the emerging field of the aurality of theatre and looks in particular at the interrogation and problematisation of theatre sound(s). Both approaches are represented in the idea of 'noise' which we understand both as a
eBook, English, 2011
Cambridge Scholars Pub., Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2011
1 online resource (xxxv, 227 pages) : illustrations
9781443837200, 9781280486319, 9786613581297, 1443837202, 1280486317, 6613581291
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Preface / Patrice Pavis
Introduction / Lynne Kendrick and David Roesner
Towards theatre noise / Ross Brown
Sound reproduction techniques in theatre : a case of mediatic resistance / Jean-Mark Larrue
Performing sound/sounding spaces / John Collins
From musicalisation of theatre to musicality of film : Beckett's Play on stage and screen / Danijela Kulezic-Wilson
Intrusive noises : the performative power of theatre sounds / Katharina Rost
Towards a (negative) philosophy of voice / Alice Lagaay
Vocal landscaping : the theatre of sound in audiowalks / Misha Myers
Radical vocality, auditory distress and disembodied voice : the resolution of the voice-body in the Wooster Group's La Didone / Pieter Verstraete
Aural acts : theatre and the phenomenology of listening / George Home-Cook
The bewitched : Harry Partch and the liberation of enslaved musicians / Tim White
Noises on : sights and sites of sound in Apollinaire's The breasts of Tiresias / Adrian Curtin
Hear and now : how technologies have changed sound practices / Eric Vautrin
The mechanics of noise : theatricality and the automated instrument in Heiner Goebbels' Theatre and Pat Metheny's Jazz / David Roesner
Melodic intentions : speaking text in postdramatic dance theatre / Zachary Dunbar
Applied aurality : noise and the aesthetics of access in Graeae's Reasons to be cheerful / Lynne Kendrick
The sounds of hearing / Marie-Madeleine Mervant-Roux
Noise, conceptual noise and the potential of audience participation / Gareth White
All around the place : sound immersion and the theatre / Jeanne Bovet
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