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SSS – Historical and theoretical research into the relations between sound, performance, and media.

22/07/2025

🎬 New on SSS Lab!
“A Rogue Note in Melancholia” by Scott Murphy is now live on our YouTube channel

🌕 Famously, the soundtrack to Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia” (2011) exclusively features multiple fresh recordings of the Prelude from Richard Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde”. Yet, in the film’s prologue, a passage played by the English horn moves up a semitone one eighth note too early. This subtle anomaly prompts music theorist Scott Murphy to explore analogies and resonances between the cinematic representation of Wagner’s musical universe and the inexorable planetary collision at the heart of the film.

Abstract:Lars von Trier's 2011 film Melancholia, which juxtaposes a taut family drama against Earth’s impending collision with a rogue planet, exclusively us...

28/04/2025

Estela Ibáñez-García has reviewed Megan Steigerwald Ille’s “Opera for Everyone: The Industry’s Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age”, a multi-sited ethnography examining the acclaimed experimental productions of Los Angeles-based company The Industry.

Find it in the latest issue of SSS — link in the first comment!🔗✨

23/04/2025

New on Sound Stage Screen!

In “Performing Eno: Generative Music as a Biopic” Niccolò Galliano delves into the innovative documentary “Eno” by Gary Hustwit and Brendan Dawes — a generative portrait of Brian Eno that changes with every screening 🎛️🎛️

📎 Read the full piece at the link in the first comment!

16/04/2025

🚨 Call for Contributions 🚨
The SSS editorial team is thrilled to launch the brand-new YouTube channel: SSS Lab!

SSS Lab is a vibrant new platform for innovative multimedia scholarship. It will feature video essays, interviews, lectures, and artistic projects exploring sound, music, performance, and visual media.

We’re currently open for submissions and welcome audiovisual contributions from scholars, artists, and independent creators.

✨ Stay tuned – exciting content is coming soon!
📎 For more info and submission guidelines, check out the Call for Contributions via the link in the first comment or contact the channel’s editor Mattia Merlini

14/04/2025

Read in our latest issue “Crafting Sensation: The Alchemy of Sound in Gaspar Noé's Films. An Interview with Ken Yasumoto”! 🎧

Sara Aresu sits down with acclaimed film sound professional Ken Yasumoto to discuss his enduring collaboration with Gaspar Noé, exploring his unique approach to sound design, sonic aesthetics, and the auditory dimensions of altered states of consciousness.

🖇️ Read it at the link in the first comment!

05/04/2025

What does it mean to be part of a music industry that, for centuries, has ignored your perspective, undermined your talent and confidence, objectified your body, and systematically erased composers like you from the canon?

in “Emergence: Examining Gender in Music through Contemporary Opera” Composer Felicity Wilcox examines the structural inequity at opera’s core, while highlighting the disruptive practices that are actively challenging the status quo. Drawing on theories of intersectional feminism, deep listening, feminist listening and acoustic ecology, Wilcox offers a bold new vision for a more inclusive and resonant operatic future.

Read it in our new issue. Link in the first comment!

29/03/2025

Read in our new issue “From Vox Ferus to Canine Posthuman: Becoming a Singing Dog” by Jelena Novak! 🦴

What defines an animal voice? Recent works in music, theatre and performance art interrogate the fluid boundary between human and animal. Centering the dog as an “animal of interest”, this study explores how humans “go out of themselves”, analyzing how dogs are vocally constructed to perform hybrid identities that blur the lines between human and non-human beings.

The article includes an exclusive interview with composer Alexander Raskatov, creator of the operas “A Dog’s Heart” and “Animal Farm”.

🖇 Find it at the link in the first comment!

24/03/2025

Read in SSS’ latest issue the article “Symposium Musicum: The Politics of Place in Music Theatre” by Elia Moretti, a thought-provoking exploration of sound as a catalyst for critical engagement and social change.

🔊 This article delves into “Symposium Musicum”, an experimental music theatre project in Slovakia that employs an ecological approach to sound and culture. By examining the relationship between the Roma community and contemporary Slovak society, it highlights the transformative potential of active listening in fostering intercultural dialogue and reimagining social dynamics.

🔗 Find it at the link in the first comment!

21/03/2025

🎞️🎞️🎞️ Sound Stage Screen 4/1 is out now!

In this issue, we delve into fascinating topics such as the politics of space in music theatre, the construction of the animal voice in operatic works, and the evolving role of gender in contemporary opera. Plus, enjoy an insightful interview with sound design expert Ken Yasumoto, along with reviews of a new study on Yuval Sharon’s The Industry and a biographical documentary inspired by generative music.

🖇️ Read more via the link in the first comment!

05/11/2024

Do we really want to rescue the notion of “musical space”?

On our brand new YouTube channel, SSS Lab, you can watch the full video of Wolfgang Ernst’s lecture “Symbolic Space as a Time-Function of Sonic Signals”. With this video we want to celebrate the first anniversary of the conference “Spaces of Musical Production/Production of Musical Space”, which took place last year at (more coming soon).

Find it at the link in the first comment!

SSS Lab is a dynamic space for innovative multimedia scholarship and will host video essays, interviews, lectures and art projects related to sound, music, performance and visual media. Stay tuned for more content and a special Call for Contributions!

05/08/2024

Read on our website “Wind Phone, Operomanija: Notes on Vulnerability, Longing and Love” by Jelena Novak, a review of the phone booth opera “Things I Didn’t Dare to Say, and It’s Too Late Now” produced by OPEROMANIJA and premiered at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre in Vilnius (December 2023).

📎 Link in the first comment.

Photo by Dmitrijus Matvejevas

31/07/2024

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Read in our latest issue “Opera and the Art of Anaesthetics” by Delia Casadei, a review-essay of Donizetti’s opera “Il diluvio universale” staged last fall by the artistic duo Masbedo at Teatro Donizetti (Bergamo).

📎 Link in the first comment!

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About SSS

Sound Stage Screen (SSS) is a biannual peer-reviewed journal devoted to historical and theoretical research into the relations between sound, performance, and media. SSS will address a wide range of phenomena, practices, and objects pertaining to sound and music in light of the interconnections between performing traditions and media archaeologies: from opera to musical multimedia, and from cinema to interactive audio-visual platforms. An open-access journal published in English by the University of Milan (Italy), SSS wishes to redefine the academic study of music as an open field whose boundaries—historical, geographical, and theoretical—are constantly being negotiated.

Promoting a dialogue across disciplines and practices is essential to this rethinking. SSS embraces the web format to stimulate and sustain the exploration of ways to restore a sense of the continuum that ties music making and research. To this end, the journal will encourage submissions stemming from practice-led research, research-led practice as well as cross-disciplinary collaborations from within and without academia. Whether it hosts a discussion of the revival of works from the past or fosters the gestation of new forms, the journal will also provide a much-needed forum in which theorists and practitioners may revisit the divide between their respective practices. We champion the rapprochement between theory and practice because we believe this to be one of the main goals of musicology.