Theatre aurality /
This book explores the critical field of theater 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 radica...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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| Summary: | This book explores the critical field of theater 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 theater sound was delayed and underrepresented in philosophy as well as theatre and performance theory. Subsequent chapters explore the emergence of aurally engaged theater practice and focus on examples of contemporary sound in and as theater, including theater in the dark, headphone theater and immersive theater, among others, through theories of perception and philosophies of listening, vocality, sonority and noise. |
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| Physical Description: | xxviii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137452320 1137452323 |