CALL FOR PAPERS
CRITICAL STAGES/SCENES CRITIQUES
www.critical-stages.org
International Association of Theatre Critics
SOUND/THEATRE: SOUND IN PERFORMANCE
Critical Stages # 16 (December 2017)
Proposal deadline: Feb 28 2017
Special Issue Editor: Johannes Birringer (DAP-Lab)
Overview
Inspired by recent productions in theatre and dance as well as by scholarly
attention given to an acoustic/sonic turn in recent years that is closely
linked to the growth in scenographic and design studies, this special issue of
Critical Stages (number 16, December 2017) will focus on
sonification/musicalization of the stage environment, generative sonic
processes, theatre aurality, music theatre/opera, digital performance and sound
design.
Looking at a widening arena of composed theatre as well as interactive and
sonic installation art, we encourage vigorous debate on emerging concepts of
rhythmic spaces, resonant dramaturgies, audiophonic scenographies, vibrational
theatres, multisensory atmospheres in performance.
Many creative processes today (enhanced by diverse technologies and
ever-changing techniques) gather momentum, in which audible, but also tactile,
haptic and/or visible dynamics, actions, atmospheres and traces are recreated,
without that theories of affect and perception have yet fully defined or
explored the contours sound affords for the spectators/listeners, especially if
interactions unfold within the area of the non-verbal and beyond alignment with
signs, narrative threads.
We are also interested in hearing from practitioners who work in collaborative
production on such contouring.
This issue invites a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives drawn from
compositional processes and production aesthetics as well as from
investigations into the perception of the interplay of analogue/digital,
instrumental/vocal, and musical or noise-sound, or various manifestations of
sound design and sonic scenographies.
KEY THEMES
The issue will approach the role of sound in performance/performance of sound
with the following general headings in mind:
• Practices
• Sonic Design/Sonic Scenography
• Vocabularies
• Experiences
• Acoustic Ecologies
• Aesthetics and Politics
Length of papers: maximum 4000 words
Proposals: 28 February 2017
First drafts: 1 August 2017
Publication date: December 2017
All proposals, submissions and enquiries should be sent to:
Johannes.Birringer@xxxxxxxxxxxx
