‘Avant-garde sound’ concentrates on how industrialization, urbanization and the growing domestic market for new technologies changed and shaped both content and practice in theatre performance.
1. How is technology referenced and understood in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century plays you have studied or produced?
2. What is a sound archive? How can it be used in theatre and performance studies?
3. Avant-garde sound performances were often inspired by the noises of urban life. How might the sounds of the city inform contemporary performance practice?
