Processes of devising Composed Theatre. Resubmission

本系列工作坊旨在汇聚当代实验音乐戏剧-作曲戏剧领域的实践者和学者。这是指戏剧的形式，其中戏剧的表现手段(手势、光线、声音、动作、文字等)都是根据音乐原则(重复、变奏、主题、节奏等)明确创作的。这个小组将讨论四个关于作曲剧场的问题：它的主要特征是什么，它的设计与传统的创作过程有什么不同，它的过程对我们的作者、戏剧、作曲和记谱的概念有什么影响，以及作曲剧场如何改变我们对音乐和戏剧相互作用的理解。合成剧场经常导致表演采用绕过传统的协作等级和劳动分工的工作过程。传统上，编剧和作曲家创作作品，然后在指挥和导演的权威领导下，由舞台、服装、灯光设计师和表演者上台演出，而作曲剧院通常采用集体创造力和扁平的等级制度。工作坊系列旨在解决产生这类作品的过程--这是音乐戏剧表演的一个领域，到目前为止被研究人员广泛忽视。鉴于相关实践的实验性质，正是过程及其概念、材料和人员决策以及新出现的互动保持了结果作品的新颖性，并使艺术之间的相互作用得以重新谈判。因此，该系列的目的是调查和比较不同的艺术过程和设计构思戏剧的方法，并激发关于这些过程的性质的深入讨论。该系列还将反映这些过程与具体表演的相关性，特别是与一般音乐戏剧的相关性。所有从业者将被要求轮流专注于他们创作戏剧的艺术过程中的一个特征方面，然后互动地示范和演示他们的方法。因此，将这一交流作为一系列讲习班进行，使所有与会者都能体验和观察作为过程而不是完成的文件或报告的示范过程。这些实践探索将被视听记录下来。在被邀请的观众面前采访每一位练习者，将把个别课程嵌入到他们更广泛的练习中。此外，著名的实践者和学者将增加理论和艺术观点，并提出一些“挑衅”，使会议的背景和框架进一步。这些挑衅可能涉及音乐戏剧中合作实验实践的独特例子，以及方法论和分析方面的考虑。在为期三天的两次会议中的第二次会议中，他们将在论坛上考虑和比较各种方法和过程，根据四个研究问题解决这些问题，并讨论未来活动的可能性。该系列旨在让所有参与者发展和展示他们目前的研究和实践，我们相信他们将因此激发或加强进一步的合作和跨学科研究。该系列还将刺激和宣传新的作品，从而产生文化影响。这些会议将被记录为DVD，从而可供将来进行研究。一本共同编辑的书将包含采访和挑衅的文字记录，以及共同撰写的章节，这些章节将评估该系列的影响并以尽可能广泛的方式传播其调查结果。

Summary This workshop series aims to bring together practitioners and scholars that work in a particular field of contemporary experimental music-theatre: Composed Theatre. This refers to forms of theatre, where the theatrical means of expression (gesture, light, sound, movement, text etc.) are explicitly composed according to musical principles (repetition, variation, motif, rhythm etc.). This group will address four questions about Composed Theatre: what are its the key characteristics, how does its devising differ from conventional creation processes, what effects do its processes have on our notions of authorship, dramaturgy, composition and notation, and how does Composed Theatre change our understanding of the interplay of music and theatre.Composed Theatre often results in performances that employ working processes that circumvent traditional hierarchies of collaboration and divisions of labour. While conventionally a librettist and composer create 'the work', which is then put on stage by stage-, costume-, light-designers and performers under the authoritative leadership of the conductor and the director, Composed Theatre often employs collective creativity and flat hierarchies.The workshops series seeks to address the processes that generate this kind of work - an area of music-theatrical performance that has been widely neglected by researchers so far. Given the experimental nature of the practices in question it is precisely the process and its conceptual, material and personnel decisions and the emerging interactions that hold the novelty of the resulting work and enable the interplay between the arts to be re-negotiated.The aim of the series is thus to investigate and compare different artistic processes and approaches to devising Composed Theatre and to stimulate an intensive discussion about the nature of these processes. The series will also reflect on these processes' relevance for specific performances in particular and music-theatre in general. All practitioners will be asked in turns to focus on a characteristic aspect of their artistic processes towards Composed Theatre and then exemplify and demonstrate their approach interactively. Conducting this exchange as a workshop series thus allows all participants to experience and observe the exemplified processes as processes and not finished papers or reports. These practical explorations will be audio-visually recorded. Interviews with each practitioner in front of an invited audience will embed the individual sessions within their wider practice. In addition, eminent practitioners and scholars will add theoretical and artistic perspective with a number of 'provocations' that will contextualize and frame the sessions further. The provocations may concern singular examples of collaborative experimental practice in music-theatre as well as methodological and analytical considerations. The sessions, interviews and provocations will be open to the public and will be advertised to specialist audiences.In the second of two three-day meetings the group will meet in forums, where they will consider and compare the various approaches and processes, address them in the light of the four research questions and discuss possibilities for future activities.The series is intended to allow all participants to develop and expose their current research and practice and we are confident they will spark or intensify further collaborative and interdisciplinary research as a consequence. The series will also stimulate and inform new work and will thus have a cultural impact. The sessions will be documented for a DVD and thus made accessible for future research purposes. A co-edited book will contain transcripts of the interviews and provocations as well as co-authored chapters that will evaluate the implications of the series and disseminate its findings in the widest possible way.