Episodes
In this episode, Salomé Voegelin presents her thoughts in relation to Arturas Bumšteinas' "Bad Weather" (2017/2019) – "a performative sound-art event of a group of performers engaging with reconstructions of Baroque theater noise machines" (Bumšteinas)
Published 10/08/24
In this episode, Ursula Kramer, Dorothea Volz, Peter Kiefer and Andrea Valle present and discuss: "From Archive to Museum? Sound in historical theatre productions and in theatre museums collections". The panel is hosted by Anna Ricke.
Published 07/28/24
in this episode, Julia H. Schröder introduces the session and proceedings start with Anna Burzyńska's presentation on "Sound and sound machines in Kantor’s theatre and possibility of exhibition"
Published 06/24/24
In this episode, Adrian, Duška and David talk to performance collaborators Persis Jadé Maravala and Jorge Lopes Ramos from ZU-UK (London) and sound-designer Gareth Fry (London) about the notion of collaboration and the specific process of design and creative development they engage with.
Published 05/03/24
In this episode we discuss the audio papers that were presented over the last few episodes on the role of collaboration in sound design and music composition for theatre by our esteems contributors: Alyson Campbell (Melbourne) and Meta Cohen (Melbourne), Paul Clark (London), Victoria Deiorio (Chicago), Jimmy Eadie (Dublin), Maciej Guzy (Krakow), Melanie Wilson (London), Demetris Zavros (Liverpool).
Published 04/26/24
In this episode, David introduces the final two audio papers, which were submitted to the conference and subsequently discussed at a panel on collaboration in sound design and music composition for theatre curated by Adrian Curtin, Duška Radosavjlević and David Roesner (which will be published in a future episode).
Published 03/29/24
In this episode, David introduces three more of the seven audio papers that were submitted to the conference and subsequently discussed at a panel on Collaboration in sound design and music composition for theatre curated by Adrian Curtin, Duška Radosavjlević and David Roesner (which will be published in a future episode).
Published 03/22/24
In this episode, David introduces two of the seven audio papers, which were submitted to the conference and subsequently discussed at a panel on Collaboration in sound design and music composition for theatre curated by Adrian Curtin, Duška Radosavjlević and David Roesner (which will be published in a future episode).
Published 03/15/24
The recent wave of interdisciplinary scholarship on/through voice has moved decisively away from perceptions of voice as singular, solipsistic or as tied to selfhood in one-directional or indexical ways. Voice (or rather: voicing or vocality) is now understood and practised as multiple, plural, and emergent. This curated panel seeks to embrace this approach and, in light of the symposium’s thematic remit, addresses vocal practice as a material or component of theatrical collaboration. Also,...
Published 03/01/24
Over the next weeks, proceedings of the conference "Theatre Sound (as) Collaboration" (13-15 Sept, Munich) will be published as podcast episodes. This week, you can hear part 3 of the opening session of the conference with a talk from Dan Scott.
Published 02/16/24
Over the next weeks, proceedings of the conference "Theatre Sound (as) Collaboration" (13-15 Sept, Munich) will be published as podcast episodes. This week, you can hear part 2 of the opening session of the conference with a talk from Rebecca Applin.
Published 02/09/24
Over the next weeks, proceedings of the conference "Theatre Sound (as) Collaboration" (13-15 Sept, Munich) will be published as podcast episodes. This week, you can hear part 1 of the opening session of the conference with a talk from SK Shlomo.
Published 11/28/23
In this episode I talk to the composer David Rimsky-Korsakow about his path to becoming a theatre musician and a three-day workshop he gave in Munich as part of the "Theatre Sound" project, which was hosted by the Center for Advanced Studies (LMU Munich), The workshop was realized in collaboration with the theatre department at LMU Munch and the Theaterakademie August Everding, to whom I owe huge thanks!
Published 10/13/23
in this episode, David talks to Anna Ricke about her research on sound and music in Gothic Plays and Melodrama and to Julia H. Schröder on historical handbooks on magic performances and what they reveal about the significance of sound effects on/off stage.
Published 09/05/23
In this episode David talks to two artist/scholars, who create and research sound-led forms of performance: Julie Rose Bower and Yaron Shyldkrot. The conversation addresses their creative work, aspects of theatre in the dark, Foley work, sound as touch, ASMR, and the ethics of sound design.
Published 07/24/23
In this episode, Millie Taylor and David Roesner talk to Konstantinos Thomaidis about his research and creative practice in connection with Mikhail Marmarinos' production of Sophocles' ICHNEUTAI (Trackers) in 2021.
Published 05/19/23
in this episode, we will focus on the connection of memory and sound, with a particular focus also on what role voice plays in the construction of a shared past We will touch on questions of identity, community, and performance in relation to things past and potentially lost.
Published 05/05/23
In this episode, Bella Merlin and David Roesner reflect on their transatlantic collaborations on the one-woman show "Tilly No-Body: Catastrophes of Love" (Davis (CA), 2010), "Singing the Document" (Munich 2016) and "20:20 Vision" (LA/Online, 2020/2021). In all three the sought to mix music, sound, and storytelling with techniques from verbatim theatre. In all three they produced both creative and research outcomes, seeking to develop new forms of disseminating their results and findings.
Published 04/07/23
This conversation was recorded at the Schall und Rausch Festival for brand-new music theatre, Komische Oper Berlin.
It took place at the festival venue, Schwuz Neukölln, Berlin on 25 Feb 2023
With Bronwyn Lace, Nhlanhla Mahlangu and Mirjam Schaub, hosted by Julia Jordà Stoppelhaar
Published 03/24/23
This conversation was recorded at the Schall und Rausch Festival for brand-new music theatre, Komische Oper Berlin. It took place at the festival venue, Schwuz Neukölln, Berlin on 19 Feb 2023
Published 03/10/23
A conversation with Maaike Bleeker, Vânia Gala, Seda Ilter, Silvija Jestrovic, Lynne Kendrick, Flora Pitrolo and the author: Duška Radosavljević
Published 02/24/23
During the global pandemic theatre-making and research practices drew particular attention to aurality. From the relocation of ‘live’ performance into ‘audio’ art, to the conscious ‘tuning in’ to the sound of online theatre – audiences and researchers alike re-engaged with the possibilities of sound and listening in theatre production. The concomitant reconfiguring of listening as a part of the methodology of making and research was, in turn, also inspired by new sound-led theatre practices...
Published 02/10/23
In today's episode, you will hear my conversation with Prof. Millie Taylor from the University of Amsterdam about her groundbreaking book from 2018 "Theatre Music and Sound at the RSC. Macbeth to Matilda." Enjoy this episode!
Published 01/27/23
A podcast reflecting on theatre music, sound design, sonic practices and experiences
In todays episode, Millie Taylor, Adrian Curtin and I went into conversation about the difficulties of writing about sonic experiences, feminist and queer forms of sonic scholarship, different kinds of hearing, disembodied voices and much more.
Links to many of our references are in the shownotes.
Enjoy this episode!
Published 01/13/23