Sound Effect: The Theatre We Hear (Performance and Design)

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ISBN-10:

1350236004

ISBN-13:

9781350236004

Author(s): Brown, Ross
Released: Aug 26, 2021
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Format: Paperback, 238 pages
Related ISBN: 9781350045903

Description:

About the Author\nRoss Brown is Dean of School and Professor of Sound at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK, where, in 1994, he started and led the UK's first degree courses in Theatre Sound Design. He made work in late 1980s and early 90s that is now seen as representing a 'sonic turn' in UK theatre practice. In 2009 he published the monograph Sound.\nSound Effect tells the story of the effect of theatrical aurality on modern culture. Beginning with the emergence of the modern scenic sound effect in the late 18th century, and ending with headphone theatre which brings theatre's auditorium into an intimate relationship with the audience's internal sonic space, the book relates contemporary questions of theatre sound design to a 250-year Western cultural history of hearing. It argues that while theatron was an instrument for seeing and theorizing, first a collective hearing, or audience is convened. Theatre begins with people entering an acoustemological apparatus that produces a way of hearing and of knowing. Once, this was a giant marble ear on a hillside, turned up to a cosmos whose inaudible music accounted for all. In modern times, theatre's auditorium, or instrument for hearing, has turned inwards on the people and their collective conversance in the sonic memes, tropes, clichés and picturesques that constitute a popular, fictional ontology.\nThis is a study about drama, entertainment, modernity and the theatre of audibility. It addresses the cultural frames of resonance that inform our understanding of SOUND as the rubric of the world we experience through our ears. Ross Brown reveals how mythologies, pop-culture, art, commerce and audio, have shaped the audible world as a form of theatre. Garrick, De Loutherbourg, Brecht, Dracula, Jekyll, Hyde, Spike Milligan, John Lennon, James Bond, Scooby-Do and Edison make cameo appearances as Brown weaves together a history of modern hearing, with an argument that sound is a story, audibility has a dramaturgy, hearing is scenographic, and the auditoria of drama serve modern life as the organon, or definitive frame of reference, on the sonic world.

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