Sound Spot 1

10:00 - 12:00 Music As A Chariot 1: Big Bang to Human Ritual

Presenter: Richard K. Thomas

If theatre is indeed, a type of music, then we should be able to trace its origins throughout all time. That’s exactly what we propose to do, starting with the Big Bang and the "dawn of time" and then tracing our biological roots through the evolution of human perception, the development of language, and the origins of mimesis. We’ll conclude by pulling these three fundamental characteristics of theatre together in its earliest manifestation, human ritual. And we’ll do this all with an ear towards the implications of these developments for us as theatre composers and sound designers.

14:00-17:00 Wave Field Synthesis and Spatial Audio for Theatre

Presenter: Bobby McElver

Placing sound sources in physical space via "sound holograms" created with a hand-fabricated a 372-speaker system that tours

Artists Joe Pino