Staging Sound. Reflecting theatre music and sound design

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• Sounds, Voices, Music of the Land 21.12.2025 59мин

  In this episode, Konstantinos Thomaidis (co-director, choral music composer) talks about the themes, development processes and aesthics of his collaboration with Alexander Raptotasios (co-director) and Jeph Vanger (sound designer and electronic music composer) of the film "Mother Company" which explores the complex layers of extractivist greed, rural economies, environmental disaster and a community’s pride and suffering through the presence of a children's choir in a derelict power plant in Northern Greece.
• „We are the voices of the play“ 01.10.2025 59мин

  In this episode theatre musicians Constantin John, Fabian Kalker, Karolin Killig, Nils Ostendorf, Katrin Schüler-Springorum, Rainer Süßmilch and Fiete Wachholtz discuss the working conditions of theatre musicians in German-speaking theatre, the formation of a network and the genesis of an open letter to theatre officials and critics they have just launched.
• Book launch (part 2): Music and Sound in European Theatre 17.03.2025 56мин

  Today’s episode is part II of a launch conversation about the new edited volume Music and Sound in European Theatre. Practices, Performances, Perspectives (Tamara Quick and David Roesner, eds.). Routledge 2025
• Book launch (part 1): Music and Sound in European Theatre 17.03.2025 1ч 10мин

  Today’s episode is part I of a launch conversation about the new edited volume Music and Sound in European Theatre. Practices, Performances, Perspectives (Tamara Quick and David Roesner, eds.). Routledge 2025
• Interview with Drummer and Theatre Musician Matze Pröllochs 18.02.2025 43мин

  This episode is an interview with Matze Pröllochs, drummer and composer, about his new solo album „Birth No Birth“ as well as his theatre collaborations with director Christopher Rüping, such as the spectacular project "Dionysos Stadt", which premiere in Munich in 2018.
• The Sound of a Shared Intimacy (Leonie Persyn) 16.12.2024 50мин

  In this episode, Lynne Kendrick and David Roesner engage in conversation with Leonie Persyn about her PhD Project THE SOUND OF A SHARED INTIMACY. A PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH INTO SOUND(ING) AND LISTENING IN PERFORMANCE PRACTICES
• Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Final Part 4.3 08.10.2024 36мин

  In this episode, Salomé Voegelin presents her thoughts in relation to Arturas Bumšteinas' "Bad Weather" (2017/2019) – "a performative sound-art event of a group of performers engaging with reconstructions of Baroque theater noise machines" (Bumšteinas)
• Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 4.2 28.07.2024 1ч 18мин

  In this episode, Ursula Kramer, Dorothea Volz, Peter Kiefer and Andrea Valle present and discuss: "From Archive to Museum? Sound in historical theatre productions and in theatre museums collections". The panel is hosted by Anna Ricke.
• Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 4.1 24.06.2024 40мин

  in this episode, Julia H. Schröder introduces the session and proceedings start with Anna Burzyńska's presentation on "Sound and sound machines in Kantor’s theatre and possibility of exhibition"
• Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 3.5: Discussion with ZU-UK and Gareth Fry 03.05.2024 1ч 14мин

  In this episode, Adrian, Duška and David talk to performance collaborators Persis Jadé Maravala and Jorge Lopes Ramos from ZU-UK (London) and sound-designer Gareth Fry (London) about the notion of collaboration and the specific process of design and creative development they engage with.
• Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 3.4: Discussion of the Audio Papers 26.04.2024 1ч 7мин

  In this episode we discuss the audio papers that were presented over the last few episodes on the role of collaboration in sound design and music composition for theatre by our esteems contributors: Alyson Campbell (Melbourne) and Meta Cohen (Melbourne), Paul Clark (London), Victoria Deiorio (Chicago), Jimmy Eadie (Dublin), Maciej Guzy (Krakow), Melanie Wilson (London), Demetris Zavros (Liverpool).
• Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 3.3 Audio papers 29.03.2024 34мин

  In this episode, David introduces the final two audio papers, which were submitted to the conference and subsequently discussed at a panel on collaboration in sound design and music composition for theatre curated by Adrian Curtin, Duška Radosavjlević and David Roesner (which will be published in a future episode).
• Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 3.2 Audio papers 22.03.2024 38мин

  In this episode, David introduces three more of the seven audio papers that were submitted to the conference and subsequently discussed at a panel on Collaboration in sound design and music composition for theatre curated by Adrian Curtin, Duška Radosavjlević and David Roesner (which will be published in a future episode).
• Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 3.1 Audio papers 15.03.2024 25мин

  In this episode, David introduces two of the seven audio papers, which were submitted to the conference and subsequently discussed at a panel on Collaboration in sound design and music composition for theatre curated by Adrian Curtin, Duška Radosavjlević and David Roesner (which will be published in a future episode).
• Theatre Sound as Collaboration (Conference Documentation). Part 2.1: Francesco Bentivegna, Alex Nowitz and Cathy van Eck 01.03.2024 1ч 16мин

  The recent wave of interdisciplinary scholarship on/through voice has moved decisively away from perceptions of voice as singular, solipsistic or as tied to selfhood in one-directional or indexical ways. Voice (or rather: voicing or vocality) is now understood and practised as multiple, plural, and emergent. This curated panel seeks to embrace this approach and, in light of the symposium’s thematic remit, addresses vocal practice as a material or component of theatrical collaboration. Also, and crucially, it proposes a rethinking of theatre voice as collaboration. This part of the session consists of invited talks and demonstrations by artists that work with/through voice: Francesco Bentivegna, Alex Nowitz and Cathy van Eck.
• Theatre Sound as Collaboration (Conference Documentation). Part 1.3: Dan Scott 16.02.2024 38мин

  Over the next weeks, proceedings of the conference "Theatre Sound (as) Collaboration" (13-15 Sept, Munich) will be published as podcast episodes. This week, you can hear part 3 of the opening session of the conference with a talk from Dan Scott.
• Theatre Sound as Collaboration (Conference Documentation). Part 1.2: Rebecca Applin 09.02.2024 33мин

  Over the next weeks, proceedings of the conference "Theatre Sound (as) Collaboration" (13-15 Sept, Munich) will be published as podcast episodes. This week, you can hear part 2 of the opening session of the conference with a talk from Rebecca Applin.
• Theatre Sound as Collaboration (Conference Documentation). Part 1.1: SK Shlomo 28.11.2023 39мин

  Over the next weeks, proceedings of the conference "Theatre Sound (as) Collaboration" (13-15 Sept, Munich) will be published as podcast episodes. This week, you can hear part 1 of the opening session of the conference with a talk from SK Shlomo.
• How to teach theatre music? 13.10.2023 51мин

  In this episode I talk to the composer David Rimsky-Korsakow about his path to becoming a theatre musician and a three-day workshop he gave in Munich as part of the "Theatre Sound" project, which was hosted by the Center for Advanced Studies (LMU Munich), The workshop was realized in collaboration with the theatre department at LMU Munch and the Theaterakademie August Everding, to whom I owe huge thanks!
• Magic and Horror: Sound and Music in Theatres of the Past 05.09.2023 1ч 5мин

  in this episode, David talks to Anna Ricke about her research on sound and music in Gothic Plays and Melodrama and to Julia H. Schröder on historical handbooks on magic performances and what they reveal about the significance of sound effects on/off stage.