Sound: A Reader in Theatre Practice
1st Edition
Published on 27. November 2009
264 pages
978-1-137-21765-3 (ISBN)
Description
Brown explores relationships between sound and theatre, focusing on sound's interdependence and interaction with human performance and drama. Suggesting different ways in which sound may be interpreted to create meaning, it includes key writings on sound design, as well as perspectives from beyond the discipline.
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English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-137-21765-3 (9781137217653)
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Content
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor's Preface
- Preface
- List of Readings
- Introduction: The Theatre of Sound I
- Immersivity
- Critical Perspective
- Theatrum Mundi
- Part I Dramaturgically Organized Noise
- 1 Defining Theatre Sound Design
- Design
- The Somewhat Reluctant Discourse of Theatre Sound
- Conclusion
- 2 What the Textbooks Say
- Stage Sound in 1904
- The 'Business of Making Noises'
- The Scope and Limitations of Theatre Sound
- The Use of Sound
- Sound Design and Craft
- Art and Craft in Theatre Sound Design
- Sound versus Music, and Peter Sellers on the Ontological Aurality of Theatre
- Conclusion
- 3 The Pre-History of Sound Design
- Introduction
- Sound 'Within the Wooden O'
- Music 'In Production' at the Blackfriars Theatre
- Music and Melodrama
- The Picturesque of Sound
- The Duke of Rhubarb
- The Dramaturgy of Pause, Quietness and Silence
- Aural Dramaturgy and Symbolism
- Conclusion
- 4 Alternative Takes
- Sound and Ritual Practices
- Magic through Sound: Illusion, Reception and Agreed Pretence
- The Dramaturgy of Silence
- The Relationship between Sound and Theatre
- 5 Five Sound Designers in Their Own Words
- Napier beyond Realism
- Paul Arditti on Theatre Sound Design in the Digital Age
- Hans Peter Kuhn on Theatre and Sonic Art
- John Collins on Devising Sound with the Wooster Group and ERS
- An Interview with Jonathan Deans
- Part II Theatrically Organized Hearing
- 6 Problems with Sound as Scenography
- Showing
- Recording
- Outside the Empire of Signs
- Auditory Engagement/Aural Distraction
- 7 Live Listening: The Aural Phenomenology of Theatre
- The Phenomenology of Auditory Experience
- Atmo-sphere
- Liveness
- 8 Resounding Theatres
- Stone Age Sound Design
- Vitruvius on Architecture
- Privileging the Aural: Shakespearian Acoustics
- 9 Alternative Realities
- The Sonic Scene
- Surround Sound
- Designing Surround Sound at the Manchester Royal Exchange
- Richard K. Thomas on The Sounds of Time
- 10 John Levack Drever on Sound Effect - Object - Event
- Introduction
- The Umbilical Sound Effect
- Inauguration: The Judge (1890)
- The Operation of Sound Effects Today
- Sound Object: A Return to the 'Innocent Ear'
- 'Fright Effect'
- Sound Event: Contextual Listenings
- Acoustemology
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: The Theatre of Sound II
- How to Think about Theatre Sound Design
- How-to-Do Theatre Sound Design
- Bibliography
- Index
