A unique contribution to an emerging field, Composed Theatre explores musical strategies of organization as viable alternative means of organizing theatrical work. In addition to insightful essays by a stellar group of international contributors, this volume also includes interviews with important practitioners, shedding light on historical and theoretical aspects of composed theatre.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Composed Theatre in Context
David Roesner
Part I: History and Methodology
1. Composed Theatre: Mapping the Field
Matthias Rebstock
2. Composition and Theatre
Roland Quitt
3. ’Happy New Ears’: Creating Hearing and the Hearable
Petra Maria Meyer
Part II: Processes and Practices: Work Reports and Reflections
4. ’It’s all part of one concern’: A ’Keynote’ to Composition as Staging
Heiner Goebbels
5. ’Theatre in small quantities’: On Composition for Speech, Sounds and Objects
Michael Hirsch
6. ...To Gather Together What Exists in a Dispersed State...
Jörg Laue
7. From Interdisciplinary Improvisation to Integrative Composition: Working Processes at the Theater der Klänge
Jörg U. Lensing
8. ’Let’s stop talking about it and just do it!’: Improvisation as the Beginning of the Compositional Process
George Rodosthenous
9. Hearing Voices—Transcriptions of the Phonogram of a Schizophrenic: Music-theatre for Performer and Audio-visual Media
Nichoals Till
10. Composing Theatre on a Diagonal: Metaxi ALogon, a Music-centric Performance
Demetris Zavros
Part III: Processes and Practices: Portraits and Analyses
11. ’Ça devient du théâtre, mais ça vient de la musique’: The Music Theatre of Georges Aperghis
Matthias Rebstock
12. Musical Conquest and Settlement: On Ruedi Häusermann’s Theatre Work(s)
Judith Gerstenberg
13. Composing with Raw Materials: Daniel Ott’s Music-theatre Portraits and Landscapes
Christa Brüstle
14. Permanent Quest: The Processional Theatre of Manos Tsangaris
Jörn Peter Hiekel
Part IV: Discussion and Debate
15. Composed Theatre—Discussion and Debate: On Terminology, Planning and Intuition, Concepts and Processes, Self-reflexivity and Communication
Edited by Matthias Rebstock and David Roesner
Part V: Discourse and Analysis
16. ’It is not about labelling, it’s about understanding what we do’: Composed Theatre as Discourse
David Roesner
Contributors
Introduction: Composed Theatre in Context
David Roesner
Part I: History and Methodology
1. Composed Theatre: Mapping the Field
Matthias Rebstock
2. Composition and Theatre
Roland Quitt
3. ’Happy New Ears’: Creating Hearing and the Hearable
Petra Maria Meyer
Part II: Processes and Practices: Work Reports and Reflections
4. ’It’s all part of one concern’: A ’Keynote’ to Composition as Staging
Heiner Goebbels
5. ’Theatre in small quantities’: On Composition for Speech, Sounds and Objects
Michael Hirsch
6. ...To Gather Together What Exists in a Dispersed State...
Jörg Laue
7. From Interdisciplinary Improvisation to Integrative Composition: Working Processes at the Theater der Klänge
Jörg U. Lensing
8. ’Let’s stop talking about it and just do it!’: Improvisation as the Beginning of the Compositional Process
George Rodosthenous
9. Hearing Voices—Transcriptions of the Phonogram of a Schizophrenic: Music-theatre for Performer and Audio-visual Media
Nichoals Till
10. Composing Theatre on a Diagonal: Metaxi ALogon, a Music-centric Performance
Demetris Zavros
Part III: Processes and Practices: Portraits and Analyses
11. ’Ça devient du théâtre, mais ça vient de la musique’: The Music Theatre of Georges Aperghis
Matthias Rebstock
12. Musical Conquest and Settlement: On Ruedi Häusermann’s Theatre Work(s)
Judith Gerstenberg
13. Composing with Raw Materials: Daniel Ott’s Music-theatre Portraits and Landscapes
Christa Brüstle
14. Permanent Quest: The Processional Theatre of Manos Tsangaris
Jörn Peter Hiekel
Part IV: Discussion and Debate
15. Composed Theatre—Discussion and Debate: On Terminology, Planning and Intuition, Concepts and Processes, Self-reflexivity and Communication
Edited by Matthias Rebstock and David Roesner
Part V: Discourse and Analysis
16. ’It is not about labelling, it’s about understanding what we do’: Composed Theatre as Discourse
David Roesner
Contributors