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The Life in a Sound

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2021

Extract

We attempt to create a sound—a sound which grows and turns into a cry. We try to find the energy which produces this action and to become aware of it.

I see the sound as an image. I see what is enclosed in it—a column of air trying to break open. In the effort to produce the cry I attempt to replace heaviness with spontaneous vitality. The cry becomes either an expression of freedom and awakening or a sign of imprisonment; it all depends on how the sound is controlled and directed from inside.

At the beginning of this research real calm is required. One must accept the risk of passing beyond one's accustomed realm of habitual expression. One must try to discover an image, to nourish this image with something concrete, a taste, a smell.

Type
Theatrical Theory
Copyright
Copyright © 1976 The Drama Review

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Footnotes

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These notes are dedicated to Peter Brook, who inspired them.