Staged Listening

In the context of both Cinema and Music performance, listening is informed by the spectatorial protocols of the theatre. Music has for a long time been integrated with the theatre house, since its affiliation with the birth of the opera. On the other hand, as cinema scholar Morten Meldgaard claimed “moving pictures only became Cinema when they encountered architecture, [when] the movie-house [became] a spatio-temporal construct for the social venue of cinematic viewing”. ¹ .

Sound Theory (The Clouds) explores theatre as a staging infrastructure that focuses and synchronizes the attention of spectators. In a world where the manipulation of the senses by ubiquitous computing reigns, this project begs the question: how do audiovisual infrastructures inform our engagement with the world around us?