Theatre and Aural Attention Stretching Ourselves [Hardcover]

Theatre and Aural Attention investigates what it is to attend theatre by means of listening. Focusing on four core aural phenomena in theatre  noise, designed sound, silence, and immersion - George Home-Cook concludes that theatrical listening involves paying attention to atmospheres.Introduction 1. Paying Attention to (Theatre) Noise 2. Paying Attention to Designed Sound 3. Sounding Silence 4. Sensing Atmospheres Conclusion Appendix 1: (P. Sven Arvidson's 'Sphere of Attention') Notes Bibliography Index

Without a doubt this book is interesting for practically everyone seriously interested in the relation between theatre and sound. Next to this obvious readership, the re-imagined conceptualization of terms such as atmosphere, scenography, and immersion makes it particularly interesting for theatre and scenography professionals, both scholars and practitioners & . Home-Cooks study is much more than just a welcome addition; it sparks enormously important discussions and sets a course for future explorations. (Falk H?bner, Journal of Sonic Studies, February, 2017)

This is a deeply interdisciplinary project, bringing together insights, theories and methodologies from a range of fields, and doing so in a very considerate and meaningful way, weighing terms and arguments and their merit carefully. & this will be a reference point for the emerging field of study and a rewarding read for scholars, students and practitioners alike. (David Roesner, Theatre Research International, Vol. 41 (2), July, 2016)

Theatre and Aural Attention: Stretching Ourselves is a welcome contribution to the emerging field of theatre and aurality studies. & a study not only of listening in the theatre but of the theatricality of listening, it is relevant to theatre and performance studies and also to sound studies, musicology, and anthropology. The detailed investigations of sound techniques via their effect on a listener-spectator will be usefulls|