Staging Sound. Reflecting theatre music and sound design
Episodes
Sounds, Voices, Music of the Land
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Konstantinos Thomaidis (co-director, choral music composer) talks about the themes, development processes and aesthics of his collabo...
„We are the voices of the play“
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode theatre musicians Constantin John, Fabian Kalker, Karolin Killig, Nils Ostendorf, Katrin Schüler-Springorum, Rainer Süßmilch and Fi...
Book launch (part 2): Music and Sound in European Theatre
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode is part II of a launch conversation about the new edited volume Music and Sound in European Theatre. Practices, Performances, Perspe...
Book launch (part 1): Music and Sound in European Theatre
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode is part I of a launch conversation about the new edited volume Music and Sound in European Theatre. Practices, Performances, Perspec...
Interview with Drummer and Theatre Musician Matze Pröllochs
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is an interview with Matze Pröllochs, drummer and composer, about his new solo album „Birth No Birth“ as well as his theatre collabo...
The Sound of a Shared Intimacy (Leonie Persyn)
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 PH...
Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Final Part 4.3
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Salomé Voegelin presents her thoughts in relation to Arturas Bumšteinas' "Bad Weather" (2017/2019) – "a performative sound-art ev...
Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 4.2
28 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ursula Kramer, Dorothea Volz, Peter Kiefer and Andrea Valle present and discuss: "From Archive to Museum? Sound in historical theatre...
Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 4.1
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
in this episode, Julia H. Schröder introduces the session and proceedings start with Anna Burzyńska's presentation on "Sound and sound machines in K...
Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 3.5: Discussion with ZU-UK and Gareth Fry
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Adrian, Duška and David talk to performance collaborators Persis Jadé Maravala and Jorge Lopes Ramos from ZU-UK (London) and sound-...
Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 3.4: Discussion of the Audio Papers
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 comp...
Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 3.3 Audio papers
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, David introduces the final two audio papers, which were submitted to the conference and subsequently discussed at a panel on collabor...
Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 3.2 Audio papers
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Conference documentation: Theatre Sound as Collaboration. Part 3.1 Audio papers
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, David introduces two of the seven audio papers, which were submitted to the conference and subsequently discussed at a panel on Colla...
Theatre Sound as Collaboration (Conference Documentation). Part 2.1: Francesco Bentivegna, Alex Nowitz and Cathy van Eck
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The recent wave of interdisciplinary scholarship on/through voice has moved decisively away from perceptions of voice as singular, solipsistic or as t...
Theatre Sound as Collaboration (Conference Documentation). Part 1.3: Dan Scott
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the next weeks, proceedings of the conference "Theatre Sound (as) Collaboration" (13-15 Sept, Munich) will be published as podcast episodes. This...
Theatre Sound as Collaboration (Conference Documentation). Part 1.2: Rebecca Applin
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the next weeks, proceedings of the conference "Theatre Sound (as) Collaboration" (13-15 Sept, Munich) will be published as podcast episodes. This...
Theatre Sound as Collaboration (Conference Documentation). Part 1.1: SK Shlomo
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the next weeks, proceedings of the conference "Theatre Sound (as) Collaboration" (13-15 Sept, Munich) will be published as podcast episodes. This...
How to teach theatre music?
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Magic and Horror: Sound and Music in Theatres of the Past
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Sound-led Performance
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode David talks to two artist/scholars, who create and research sound-led forms of performance: Julie Rose Bower and Yaron Shyldkrot. The ...
ICHNEUTAI by Sophocles – the invention of (theatre) music?
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Millie Taylor and David Roesner talk to Konstantinos Thomaidis about his research and creative practice in connection with Mikhail Ma...
Memory and Sound, Voice and Archeology
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
in this episode, we will focus on the connection of memory and sound, with a particular focus also on what role voice plays in the construction of a s...
Collaborative resonance
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Bella Merlin and David Roesner reflect on their transatlantic collaborations on the one-woman show "Tilly No-Body: Catastrophes of Lo...
Pop and Experiment: New impulses for (music) theatre
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation was recorded at the Schall und Rausch Festival for brand-new music theatre, Komische Oper Berlin. It took place at the festival ven...
Pop and Sound. Theatre, Music Theatre, Gig Theatre
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation was recorded at the Schall und Rausch Festival for brand-new music theatre, Komische Oper Berlin. It took place at the festival ven...
Book launch: Aural/Oral Dramaturgies: Theatre in the Digital Age
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Maaike Bleeker, Vânia Gala, Seda Ilter, Silvija Jestrovic, Lynne Kendrick, Flora Pitrolo and the author: Duška Radosavljević
Active Aurality
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During the global pandemic theatre-making and research practices drew particular attention to aurality. From the relocation of ‘live’ performance ...
Book launch: Theatre Music and Sound at the RSC
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, you will hear my conversation with Prof. Millie Taylor from the University of Amsterdam about her groundbreaking book from 2018 "T...
Writing about sonic experiences
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A podcast reflecting on theatre music, sound design, sonic practices and experiences In todays episode, Millie Taylor, Adrian Curtin and I went into ...
Sonic memories
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A podcast reflecting on theatre music, sound design, sonic practices and experiences In todays episode, Adrian Curtin, Pieter Verstraete and I went i...
Sonic Bliss
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, you will hear the recording of the launch event for our research project The Sound of Theatre, supported and hosted by the Centre for...
Introducing "Staging Sound"
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, David Roesner introduces the podcast "Staging Sound" which will explore aspects of theatre music, sound design, sonic practices and e...