Composed Theatre: Aesthetics, Practices, Processes

Contents

• Introduction: Composed Theatre in Context - David Roesner
• PART I: History and Methodology
• Chapter 1: Composed Theatre: Mapping the Field - Matthias Rebstock
• Chapter 2: Composition and Theatre - Roland Quitt
• Chapter 3: 'Happy New Ears': Creating Hearing and the Hearable - Petra Maria Meyer
• PART II: Processes and Practices: Work Reports and Reflections
• Chapter 4: 'It's all part of one concern': A 'Keynote' to Composition as Staging - Heiner Goebbels
• Chapter 5: ' Theatre in small quantities': On Composition for Speech, Sounds and Objects - Michael Hirsch
• Chapter 6: ... To Gather Together What Exists in a Dispersed State ... - Joerg Laue
• Chapter 7: From Interdisciplinary Improvisation to Integrative Composition: Working Processes at the Theater der Klange - Joerg U. Lensing
• Chapter 8: ' Let's stop talking about it and just do it!': Improvisation as the Beginning of the Compositional Process - George Rodosthenous
• Chapter 9: Hearing Voices - Transcriptions of the Phonogram of a Schizophrenic: Music-theatre for Performer and Audio-visual Media - Nicholas Till
• Chapter 10: Composing Theatre on a Diagonal: Metaxi ALogon, a Music-centric Performance - Demetris Zavros
• PART III: Processes and Practices: Portraits and Analyses
• Chapter 11: 'Ca devient du theatre, mais ca vient de la musique': The Music Theatre of Georges Aperghis - Matthias Rebstock
• Chapter 12: Musical Conquest and Settlement: On Ruedi Hausermann's Theatre Work(s) - Judith Gerstenberg
• Chapter 13: Composing with Raw Materials: Daniel Ott's Music-theatre Portraits and Landscapes - Christa Bru stle
• Chapter 14: Permanent Quest: The Processional Theatre of Manos Tsangaris - Joern Peter Hiekel
• PART IV: Discussion and Debate
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 16: ' It is not about labelling, it's about understanding what we do': Composed Theatre as Discourse - David Roesner