Download or read book Avant-Garde Theatre Sound written by A. Curtin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound experimentation by avant-garde theatre artists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries is an important but ignored aspect of theatre history. Curtin explores how artists engaged with the sonic conditions of modernity through dramatic form, characterization, staging, technology, performance style, and other forms of interaction.