This podcast accompanies the research project "The Sound of Theatre", supported by the Centre for Advances Studies at the University of Munich. We will explore questions around the current research in this field of study, we will have conversations with artists and discussions about performances, and we will record presentations and papers that come out of our various cooperations.
The format, length and frequency of this podcast will vary, but we hope that all episodes will be interesting, engaging and relevant for all those interested in the wide range of interplays between theatre, music, sound, voice, acoustic and technolgy: whether you are a student, a scholar, an artist or an audience member: Please subscribe and tune in!
Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Final Part 4.3
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)
10/8/2024 • 36 minutes, 40 seconds
Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 4.2
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.
7/28/2024 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 43 seconds
Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 4.1
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"
6/24/2024 • 40 minutes, 30 seconds
Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 3.5: Discussion with ZU-UK and Gareth Fry
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.
5/3/2024 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 27 seconds
Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 3.4: Discussion of the Audio Papers
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).
4/26/2024 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 1 second
Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 3.3 Audio papers
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).
3/29/2024 • 34 minutes, 29 seconds
Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 3.2 Audio papers
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).
3/22/2024 • 38 minutes, 55 seconds
Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 3.1 Audio papers
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).
3/15/2024 • 25 minutes, 39 seconds
Theatre Sound as Collaboration (Conference Documentation). Part 2.1: Francesco Bentivegna, Alex Nowitz and Cathy van Eck
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, and crucially, it proposes a rethinking of theatre voice as collaboration. This part of the session consists of invited talks and demonstrations by artists that work with/through voice: Francesco Bentivegna, Alex Nowitz and Cathy van Eck.
3/1/2024 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 59 seconds
Theatre Sound as Collaboration (Conference Documentation). Part 1.3: Dan Scott
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.
2/16/2024 • 38 minutes, 36 seconds
Theatre Sound as Collaboration (Conference Documentation). Part 1.2: Rebecca Applin
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.
2/9/2024 • 33 minutes, 23 seconds
Theatre Sound as Collaboration (Conference Documentation). Part 1.1: SK Shlomo
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.
11/28/2023 • 39 minutes, 30 seconds
How to teach theatre music?
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!
10/13/2023 • 51 minutes, 1 second
Magic and Horror: Sound and Music in Theatres of the Past
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.
9/5/2023 • 1 hour, 5 minutes
Sound-led Performance
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.
7/24/2023 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 38 seconds
ICHNEUTAI by Sophocles – the invention of (theatre) music?
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.
5/19/2023 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 21 seconds
Memory and Sound, Voice and Archeology
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.
5/5/2023 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 51 seconds
Collaborative resonance
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.
4/7/2023 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 24 seconds
Pop and Experiment: New impulses for (music) theatre
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
3/24/2023 • 59 minutes, 23 seconds
Pop and Sound. Theatre, Music Theatre, Gig Theatre
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
3/10/2023 • 47 minutes, 42 seconds
Book launch: Aural/Oral Dramaturgies: Theatre in the Digital Age
A conversation with Maaike Bleeker, Vânia Gala, Seda Ilter, Silvija Jestrovic, Lynne Kendrick, Flora Pitrolo and the author: Duška Radosavljević
2/24/2023 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 6 seconds
Active Aurality
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 that emerged in response to the contemporary moment. Focusing on UK examples of works that responded to the sonic possibilities of theatre during the pandemic, i.e. Darkfield and Sylvia Mercuriali, and research practices, including the website Auralia.space, this discussion with Duška Radosavljević and Lynne Kendrick will focus on the opportunities that approaches to aurality can present in the face of a global crisis of health, of sociality, and of the arts.
2/10/2023 • 45 minutes, 38 seconds
Book launch: Theatre Music and Sound at the RSC
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!
1/27/2023 • 42 minutes, 44 seconds
Writing about sonic experiences
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!
1/13/2023 • 55 minutes, 38 seconds
Sonic memories
A podcast reflecting on theatre music, sound design, sonic practices and experiences In todays episode, Adrian Curtin, Pieter Verstraete and I went into our personal archives to dig out papers we had written on various interplays of theatre and music a while ago. We discuss points of connection, research contexts and how the field has developed. Links to many of our references are in the shownotes.
12/30/2022 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 27 seconds
Sonic Bliss
In this episode, you will hear the recording of the launch event for our research project The Sound of Theatre, supported and hosted by the Centre for Advances Studies at the University of Munich. This event was a panel discussion with Adrian Curtin, Anna Burzyńska, Pieter Verstraete, Millie Taylor, Konstantinos Thomaidis and David Roesner on the topic of „Sonic Bliss – Favourite Musical Moments in Theatre performances“
12/14/2022 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 31 seconds
Introducing "Staging Sound"
In this episode, David Roesner introduces the podcast "Staging Sound" which will explore aspects of theatre music, sound design, sonic practices and experiences with fellow scholars and artists. Whether you are a student, a scholar, an artist or an audience member: please subscribe and tune in!