Staging Sound. Reflecting theatre music and sound design

In this episode, the two authors of a groundbreaking book from our field, "Sound and Music for the Theatre", Deena Kaye and Jim LeBrecht, discuss its trajectory across five editions in the light of the many changes within the industry, and how being a sound designer and a theatre composer has developed.

In this episode, Konstantinos Thomaidis (co-director, choral music composer) talks about the themes, development processes and aesthics of his collaboration with Alexander Raptotasios (co-director) and Jeph Vanger (sound designer and electronic music composer) of the film "Mother Company" which explores the complex layers of extractivist greed, rural economies, environmental disaster and a community’s pride and suffering through the presence of a children's choir in a derelict power plant in Northern Greece.

In this episode theatre musicians Constantin John, Fabian Kalker, Karolin Killig, Nils Ostendorf, Katrin Schüler-Springorum, Rainer Süßmilch and Fiete Wachholtz discuss the working conditions of theatre musicians in German-speaking theatre, the formation of a network and the genesis of an open letter to theatre officials and critics they have just launched.

Today’s episode is part II of a launch conversation about the new edited volume Music and Sound in European Theatre. Practices, Performances, Perspectives (Tamara Quick and David Roesner, eds.). Routledge 2025

Today’s episode is part I of a launch conversation about the new edited volume Music and Sound in European Theatre. Practices, Performances, Perspectives (Tamara Quick and David Roesner, eds.). Routledge 2025