Writing about sonic experiences

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Show notes The Research Project: https://www.en.cas.uni-muenchen.de/research_groups/current_rg/rg_roesner/index.html The Blog: https://theatermus.hypotheses.org

Articles: Millie Taylor: ‘Exploring the Grain: The Sound of the Voice in Bruce Nauman’s Raw Materials’, Studies in Theatre and Performance 26/3 (2006), pp. 289-296. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1386/stap.26.3.289/3 Adrian Curtin: ‚Recomposing Genet: Analysing the Musicality of Playing ‘The Maids’“ (2017): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10486801.2017.1298097

Mentioned: • Naumann, Bruce: Raw Materials https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/bruce-nauman-1691/raw-material • Chion, Michel (1994), Audio-Vision. Sounds on Screen, New York: Columbia University Press. • Truax, Barry (1984), Acoustic communication, Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Pub. Corp. • Taylor Millie (2003), ‘Collaboration or conflict: Music and Lyrics by Brecht, Weill and Eisler’ Studies in Theatre and Performance Vol 23: 2, pp. 117-124. • Taylor Millie (2003), Humanity, Community and Excess: ‘Feel the flow’ in musical theatre performance. Inaugural Lecture at University of Winchester, 29 April 2013. • Roesner, David and Merlin, Bella (2018), ‚The Document as Music. Exploring the musicality of verbatim material in performance‘, Journal for Artistic Research, Vol. 15, 2018. https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.353508 • Rost, Katharina (2017), Sounds that matter – Dynamiken des Hörens in Theater und Performance, Bielefeld: transcript. • Curtin, Adrian and Roesner, David (eds.) (2016), Sounds good. Special issue of Theatre and Performance Design, Autumn/Winter. • Kendrick, Lynne and Roesner, David (eds.) (2011), Theatre Noise. The Sound of Performance. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. • Sterne, Jonathan (2003), The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction, Durham: Duke University Press. • Riedelsheimer, Thomas, Touch the Sound (Film). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424509/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 • McGurk effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k8fHR9jKVM •

Guests: Prof Dr Adrian Curtin is Associate Professor at University of Exeter. His research is wide ranging from modernism to contemporary orchestral theatre. In 2014 he published Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity. He also works as a theatre musician. https://drama.exeter.ac.uk/staff/curtin/

Prof Dr Millie Taylor holds the Van den Ende Chair of the Musical at the University of Amsterdam. For almost 20 years she toured Britain and Europe as a freelance musical director in Musical theatre. I constantly use her and Dominic Symonds book Studying Musical Theatre (2014) in my course. More recently she has published Theatre Music and Sound at the RSC: Macbeth to Matilda (2018). https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/t/a/m.taylor2/m.taylor.html?cb