Theatre Aurality
by Lynne Kendrick /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book explores the critical field of theatre sound and the
sonic phenomena of theatre. It draws together a wide range of
related topics, including sound design and sonic sonographies,
voice as a performance of sound, listening as auditory performance,
and audience as resonance. It explores radical forms of sonic
performance and our engagement in it, from the creation of sonic
subjectivities to noise as a politics of sound. The introductory
chapters trace the innate aurality of theatre and the history of
sound effects and design, while also interrogating why the art of
theatre sound was delayed and underrepresented in philosophy as
well as theatre and performance theory. Subsequent chapters explore
the emergence of aurally engaged theatre practice and focus on
examples of contemporary sound in and as theatre, including theatre
in the dark, headphone theatre and immersive theatre, amongst
others, through theories of perception and philosophies of
listening, vocality, sonority and noise.
This book explores the critical field of theatre sound and the
sonic phenomena of theatre. It draws together a wide range of
related topics, including sound design and sonic sonographies,
voice as a performance of sound, listening as auditory performance,
and audience as resonance. It explores radical forms of sonic
performance and our engagement in it, from the creation of sonic
subjectivities to noise as a politics of sound. The introductory
chapters trace the innate aurality of theatre and the history of
sound effects and design, while also interrogating why the art of
theatre sound was delayed and underrepresented in philosophy as
well as theatre and performance theory. Subsequent chapters explore
the emergence of aurally engaged theatre practice and focus on
examples of contemporary sound in and as theatre, including theatre
in the dark, headphone theatre and immersive theatre, amongst
others, through theories of perception and philosophies of
listening, vocality, sonority and noise.