Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Composed Theatre in Context

David Roesner

PART I: History and Methodology

Chapter 1: Composed Theatre: Mapping the Field

Matthias Rebstock

Chapter 2: Composition and Theatre

Roland Quitt

Chapter 3: ‘Happy New Ears’: Creating Hearing and the Hearable

Petra Maria Meyer

PART II: Processes and Practices: Work Reports and Reflections

Chapter 4: ‘It’s all part of one concern’: A ‘Keynote’ to Composition as Staging

Heiner Goebbels

Chapter 5: ‘ Theatre in small quantities’: On Composition for Speech, Sounds and Objects

Michael Hirsch

Chapter 6: … To Gather Together What Exists in a Dispersed State …

Jörg Laue

Chapter 7: From Interdisciplinary Improvisation to Integrative Composition: Working Processes at the Theater der Klänge

Jörg U. Lensing

Chapter 8: ‘ Let’s stop talking about it and just do it!’: Improvisation as the Beginning of the Compositional Process

George Rodosthenous

Chapter 9: Hearing Voices – Transcriptions of the Phonogram of a Schizophrenic: Music-theatre for Performer and Audio-visual Media

Nicholas Till

Chapter 10: Composing Theatre on a Diagonal: Metaxi ALogon, a Music-centric Performance

Demetris Zavros

PART III: Processes and Practices: Portraits and Analyses

Chapter 11: ‘Ça devient du théâtre, mais ça vient de la musique’: The Music Theatre of Georges Aperghis

Matthias Rebstock

Chapter 12: Musical Conquest and Settlement: On Ruedi Häusermann’s Theatre Work(s)

Judith Gerstenberg

Chapter 13: Composing with Raw Materials: Daniel Ott’s Music-theatre Portraits and Landscapes

Christa Brüstle

Chapter 14: Permanent Quest: The Processional Theatre of Manos Tsangaris

Jörn Peter Hiekel

PART IV: Discussion and Debate

Chapter 15: Composed Theatre – Discussion and Debate: On Terminology, Planning and Intuition, Concepts and Processes, Self-reflexivity and Communication

Edited by Matthias Rebstock and David Roesner

PART V: Discourse and Analysis

Chapter 16: ‘It is not about labelling, it’s about understanding what we do’: Composed Theatre as Discourse

David Roesner

Contributors