Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama, edited by Jelena Novak and John Richardson, Routledge , 2019
Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s most celebrated collaboration, the landmark opera Einstein on th... more Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s most celebrated collaboration, the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, had its premiere at the Avignon Festival in 1976. During its initial European tour, Metropolitan Opera premiere, and revivals in 1984 and 1992, Einstein provoked opposed reactions from both audiences and critics. Today, Einstein is well on the way itself to becoming a canonized avant-garde work, and it is widely acknowledged as a profoundly significant moment in the history of opera or musical theater. Einstein created waves that for many years crashed against the shores of traditional thinking concerning the nature and creative potential of audiovisual expression. Reaching beyond opera, its influence was felt in audiovisual culture in general: in contemporary avant-garde music, performance art, avant-garde cinema, popular film, popular music, advertising, dance, theater, and many other expressive, commercial, and cultural spheres. Inspired by the 2012–2015 series of performances that re-contextualized this unique work as part of the present-day nexus of theoretical, political, and social concerns, the editors and contributors of this book take these new performances as a pretext for far-reaching interdisciplinary reflection and dialogue. Essays range from those that focus on the human scale and agencies involved in productions to the mechanical and post-human character of the opera’s expressive substance. A further valuable dimension is the inclusion of material taken from several recent interviews with creative collaborators Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, and Lucinda Childs, each of these sections comprising knee plays, or short intermezzo sections resembling those found in the opera Einstein on the Beach itself. The book additionally features a foreword written by the influential musicologist and cultural theorist Susan McClary and an interview with film and theater luminary Peter Greenaway, as well as a short chapter of reminiscences written by the singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega.
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Zeynep Bulut is a researcher in the field of sound studies, voice and experimental music at the Queens University Belfast. Her work theorizes the physical and phenomenal emergence of the voice and its role in the constitution of the self. She is currently working on her first monograph entitled "Skin-Voice-Contemporary Music between Speech and Language ". Alongside her scholarly work she has composed and performed sound and voice pieces for concert-, theatre-, video-and installation-art. She received her PHD in Critical Studies.
For the #36 edition of her radio program LAUTSTROM, Bromley invited New York City based artist Christine Sun Kim and London based musicologist Zeynep Bulut into reboot.fm`s radio studio in the HKW Berlin. The (transcribed) radio conversation elaborates on experiencing the physicality of sound and on theorizing voice as an interface.
ISBN 9781472473707
Contributors: David Kasunic, Zeynep Bulut, Katherine Kinney, Caitlin Marshall, Annette Schlichter, Nina Eidsheim.
Zeynep Bulut is a researcher in the field of sound studies, voice and experimental music at the Queens University Belfast. Her work theorizes the physical and phenomenal emergence of the voice and its role in the constitution of the self. She is currently working on her first monograph entitled "Skin-Voice-Contemporary Music between Speech and Language ". Alongside her scholarly work she has composed and performed sound and voice pieces for concert-, theatre-, video-and installation-art. She received her PHD in Critical Studies.
For the #36 edition of her radio program LAUTSTROM, Bromley invited New York City based artist Christine Sun Kim and London based musicologist Zeynep Bulut into reboot.fm`s radio studio in the HKW Berlin. The (transcribed) radio conversation elaborates on experiencing the physicality of sound and on theorizing voice as an interface.