Composed Theatre

by Rebstock, Matthias; Roesner, David

• ISBN13: 9781841504568
• ISBN10: 1841504564
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-15
• Publisher: Intellect L & D E F A E

Summary

A unique contribution to an emerging field, Composed Theatreexplores musical strategies of organization as viable alternative means of organizing theatrical work. In addition to insightful essays by a stellar group of international contributors, this volume also includes interviews with important practitioners, shedding light on historical and theoretical aspects of composed theatre.

Author Biography

Dr David Roesner is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter His research interests include experimental music theatre, incidental music, and contemporary European theatre. He won the Thurnau Award for Music Theatre Studies in 2007 and is the author of Theater als Musik/Theatre as Music (Narr 2003), which investigates musicalization in the theatre of Christoph Marthaler, Einar Schleef und Robert Wilson. He has co-edited Szenische Orte Mediale Rume / Theatre places-Media Spaces (Olms 2005) and Theatre Noise: The Sound of Performance (CSP 2011) and published numerous articles and chapters. David Roesner also works internationally as a theatre teacher, theatre musician and director. Dr Matthias Rebstock for Scenic Music at the University of Hildesheim. His research interests include contemporary music and music theatre, experimental music, sound art, aesthetics, and performance studies. He is the author of Komposition zwischen Musik und Theater. Das instrumental Theater von Mauricio Kagel zwischen 1959 und 1965 (Hofheim, 2007) and co-editor of Kollektive in den Knsten (Hildesheim, 2008). He has also directed numerous music theatre productions and was the 2007 winner, of the International Theatre Institute Niebla together with the composer Elena Mendoza.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 7
Introduction: Composed Theatre in Context	p. 9
History and Methodology	p. 15
Composed Theatre: Mapping the Field	p. 17
Composition and Theatre	p. 53
'Happy New Ears': Creating Hearing and the Hearable	p. 81
Processes and Practices: Work Reports and Reflections	p. 109
'It's all part of one concern': A 'Keynote' to Composition as Staging	p. 111
'Theatre in small quantities': On Composition for Speech, Sounds and Objects	p. 121
…To Gather Together What Exists in a Dispersed State…	p. 133
From Interdisciplinary Improvisation to Integrative Composition: Working Processes at the Theater der Klänge	p. 155
'Let's stop talking about it and just do it!': Improvisation as the Beginning of the Compositional Process	p. 169
Hearing Voices - Transcriptions of the Phonogram of a Schizophrenic: Music-theatre for Performer and Audio-visual Media	p. 183
Composing Theatre on a Diagonal: Metaxi ALogon, a Music-centric Performance	p. 201
Processes and Practices: Portraits and Analyses	p. 221
'Ça devient du théâtre, mais ça vient de la musique': The Music Theatre of Georges Aperghis	p. 223
Musical Conquest and Settlement: On Ruedi Häusermann's Theatre Work(s)	p. 243
Composing with Raw Materials: Daniel Ott's Music-theatre Portraits and Landscapes	p. 257
Permanent Quest: The Processional Theatre of Manos Tsangaris	p. 279
Discussion and Debate	p. 293
Composed Theatre - Discussion and Debate: On Terminology, Planning and Intuition, Concepts and Processes, Self-reflexivity and Communication	p. 295
Discourse and Analysis	p. 317
'It is not about labelling, it's about understanding what we do': Composed Theatre as Discourse	p. 319
Contributors	p. 363
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