Sounding Out ‘the Scenographic Turn’: Eight Position Statements

David Roesner; Adrian Curtin; Ross Brown; George Home-Cook; Lynne Kendrick; Katharina Rost; Nickolas Till; Pieter Verstraete

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Sounding Out ‘the Scenographic Turn’: Eight Position Statements

David Roesner^* (Editor), Adrian Curtin^* (Editor), Ross Brown, George Home-Cook, Lynne Kendrick, Katharina Rost, Nickolas Till, Pieter Verstraete

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This multi-authored essay collects a range of position statements made by leading scholars/practitioners in the fields of theatre aurality, music theatre/opera, and sound design. Contributors independently prepared short statements in response to a central provocation—namely, the mooted ‘scenographic turn’ and its implication for theatre sound studies. The essay provides snapshots of current opinions about theatre sound design and scenography. It does not advance a single, unified argument but rather outlines some key ways in which sound/music and scenography are operating, and have operated, in theatre, and have been discussed in aesthetic theory. The essay ultimately reinforces the importance of attending to sound and scenography as co-constitutive elements, and suggests there is no single or best way of doing this.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	107-125
Number of pages	19
Journal	Theatre and Performance Design
Volume	1
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2015.1027523
Publication status	Published - 4-Jun-2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

theatre design
sound design
music philosophy
opera studies
sound studies
audio culture
cultural history
Theatre and Performance Studies
music theatre
theatre sound

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