Theatre Noise conference at CSSD - Registration now open

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Registration is now open for

Theatre Noise
An international conference

The Central School of Speech and Drama
University of London
Eton Avenue, London, NW3 3HY

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.

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 features - 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 and 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.

For registration details, the conference fee and fees for additional activities, and a draft conference schedule, go to http://www.cssd.ac.uk/pages/theatre_noise_-_an_international_conference.html

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