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Welcome to the OISTAT Sound Design Working Group |
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OISTAT
Sound Design Working Group Webinar
#1 Music
as a Foundation of Theatre Origins. Richard
K Thomas
Friday,
January 15 2010, 9:30 am - 11:30 am. EST US (2.30pm – 4.30pm GMT) In
this presentation we will explore the debate about the evolutionary origins of
music and language, and the various theories regarding the origins of theatre.
After looking at these independently, we will look the fundamental role that
music played in what is generally regarded as the first autonomous theatre,
Greek theatre. These origins will serve as an aesthetic foundation establishing
the primal role that music plays in all theatre activities.
Rick’s
recent projects include a biography about Broadway sound pioneer Abe Jacob (The
Designs of Abe Jacob), and leading a team of Visual and Performing Arts students
and faculty in the creation of Labcoats on Clouds that premiered at the 2007
Prague Quadrennial in June of 2007. Rick also organized and led a group of
artists from Purdue, Germany, Paris, and San Francisco in the performance art
piece, Laptop Connections at the Marysakovo Railway Station during the “PQ.”
Having composed music and soundscores for the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre,
Dublin Theatre Festival and ESPN among many others, Rick’s most recent theatre
compositions include An
Unkindness of Ravens at
Roosevelt University in Chicago in 2007 and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
at Purdue in 2006. Rick won the Murphy Award for outstanding teaching at Purdue
University in 2007 and the USITT Herbert D. Greggs Award for outstanding journal
article in 2002. Research interests include playmaking, music composition and
sound design for live theatre, and sound system design and engineering. Please
also note that this webinar is free! Thank you, Davin Huston and Kirkegaard Associates for helping to make this possible.
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October 2009
