{"product_id":"sound-effect-9781350045903","title":"Sound Effect","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the PQ Best Publication Award in Performance Design \u0026amp; Scenography 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSound Effect\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the effect of theatrical aurality on modern culture. Beginning with the emergence of the modern scenic sound effect in the late 18th century, and ending with headphone theatre which brings theatre's auditorium into an intimate relationship with the audience's internal sonic space, the book relates contemporary questions of theatre sound design to a 250-year Western cultural history of hearing. It argues that while theatron was an instrument for seeing and theorizing, first a collective hearing, or audience is convened. Theatre begins with people entering an acoustemological apparatus that produces a way of hearing and of knowing. Once, this was a giant marble ear on a hillside, turned up to a cosmos whose inaudible music accounted for all. In modern times, theatre's auditorium, or instrument for hearing, has turned inwards on the people and their collective\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Now hear this (a preface)  \u003cb\u003ePART ONE \u003c\/b\u003eTheatrical hearing \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003eIt’s obviously an effect (An introduction)  Splat  By design  \u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003eDispositions  The god sound Auditory space and its dramaturgy  The scenography of sound  \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eAuditorium  A space in process  A fictional ontology  \u003cb\u003ePART TWO \u003c\/b\u003eReconfigurations \u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003ePresent (A theatre about our person)  Inscape  Personal audio \/ immersive theatre  The hi-fi cell  \u003cb\u003e5 \u003c\/b\u003eA sound from the suburbs (The curious story of Colonel Gouraud)  An electric house  A baby cries  Anathema maranatha!  6     Picturing the scene     The scenic reconfiguration     The picturesque of sound     The Eidophusikon     \u003cb\u003ePART  THREE\u003c\/b\u003e   ‘Our thunder is the best’ (Living in the audio world) 7     Arty, exotic and gothic     Pop, art and the theatre of hearing      The theatre we daydream      Thunder on the ear    8     Inside out (Symbolism, cinema and The Bells)     The soundtrack, its prehistory and audiovisual morphology     My God, it’s coming out of your ears!     The free ear    9     Audio drama     The sound effect in its widest sense (the stuff of radio)     The theatre Corwin heard     Common sound     The Anatomy of Sound, by Norman Corwin    10   Conclusion     Audimus: the theatre we hear    References     Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187285221719,"sku":"9781350045903","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sound-effect-9781350045903","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}