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Sound Effect - The Theatre We Hear (Hardcover)
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Sound Effect - The Theatre We Hear (Hardcover)
Series: Performance and Design
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Sound 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, cliches and picturesques
that constitute a popular, fictional ontology. This 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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