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Theatre Noise - an international conference
Wednesday 22 - Friday 24 April 2009
Theatre Noise is about the acoustic environments and auditory phenomena of
theatre and performance - the things that you listen to and those that you
hear.
Theatre Noise features:
* three keynote presentations by eminent theatre practitioners
* four round tables featuring invited guests from industry and the
academy
* papers
* performances
* installations
* residencies by artists exploring new practices in sound
* workshops
* a Listening Room that includes compositions and other aural
contributions
* daily responses from the conference respondent
* conference blog
* publishers' stands
Social and networking activities include:
* a drinks reception
* a conference dinner at a restaurant local to Central, with bespoke
musical entertainment
* Heiner Goebbels' Sampler Suite (from Surrogate Cities) and Songs of
Wars I Have Seen, presented by the London Sinfonietta & Orchestra of the
Age of Enlightenment at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank
* Futurism Updated, a series of specially commissioned works developing
the themes of Futurism, presented by Central in association with the
Estorick Collection and Derek Shiel on the evening prior to the conference.
* Throughout, delegates can relax and chat at Central's celebrated and
convivial Bar of Ideas, and everything finishes with a party at London's
South Bank
Keynote presenters:
Cicely Berry (voice director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, author of
Voice and the Actor and Your Voice and How to Use It)
John Collins (artistic director of the New York-based theatre company
Elevator Repair Service, formerly sound designer with The Wooster Group)
Heiner Goebbels (composer and director, professor and managing director of
the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Justus Liebig University,
Giessen)
Conference respondent:
Bruce R. Smith (Dean's Professor of English, University of Southern
California, author of The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending
to the O-Factor)
Theatre Noise addresses sound design and ‘undesigned' noises, music for
performance and performance that is both ‘musical' and ‘unmusical',
voice production and vocal utterance (speaking, shouting, singing,
muttering). It proposes that theatre is that which is heard as well as that
which is watched - that the theatron is a listening place as well as a
seeing place.
Theatre Noise considers aurality. It asks how hearing and listening shape
our experience and perception of an event. It concentrates on theatre as a
subjective perceptual encounter. It addresses ways in which the noise of
theatre works on our senses, and how it positions us within a visceral
sphere of acoustic energy.
Theatre Noise is also interested in the inherent noise of the materials of
theatre and performance: the rasping of its voices, the sounds in its
environment, the interfering consciousness of ‘aural' corporeal presence
within the noisy arena of theatre as a place.
http://www.cssd.ac.uk/pages/theatre_noise_-_an_international_conference.html
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