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The Politics Of Podcasting, Jonathan Sterne, Jeremy Morris, Michael Brendan Baker, Ariana Moscote Freire

Faculty Publications and Scholarship

Our essay historicises the term “podcast” and offers some new contexts for understanding the history of the term, the practices it designates and its relation to broadcasting.[4] [4] The paper proceeds in four sections. We first analyse the origins and emergence of the word podcasting among the press and the digerati. We dispute the standard argument that podcasting’s main innovation is a marriage of RSS and Apple’s iPod by presenting podcasting as a practice that arose from a network of actors, technologies and behaviours. In the second section, we discuss how podcasting works and why we need to look beyond …

A New Brain, November 27 – December 6, 2008, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Gordon Schwinn, a talented but frustrated songwriter, suddenly discovers he has a brain tumor and needs a risky operation. Using his fiercely sarcastic wit, he faces the dire possibilities that he may die without ever realizing his artistic potential or, perhaps worse, that he may never regain the use of his faculties. This crisis makes him re-evaluate and better appreciate his life and the people who surround him as he discovers the healing power of art.

Music & lyrics by William Finn. Book by James Lapine & William Finn

Director: Tricia Lackey

Choreographer: Sarah Slywchuk

Musical Director: Adam White

Two Gentlemen Of Verona, November 25 – December 6, 2008, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Two best friends leave their rural hometown of Verona to seek their fortunes in Milan. They soon find their friendship tested when they fall in love with the same girl. But even more trouble ensues when the girlfriend one left behind, disguises herself and follows her feckless lover to the ‘big city.’ This madcap musical adaptation of the classic Shakespeare comedy is bound to make you appreciate the Bard in a very new way and will leave you with a joyous life-affirming glow!

The Tony-Award Winning Rock Musical, music by Galt MacDermot, lyrics by John Guare, book adapted by John …

Dresden Story And The Emergence Of The Talking Head In The Nfb Documentary, Michael Brendan Baker

Faculty Publications and Scholarship

Numerous surveys of the development of documentary cinema and analyses of its transitional moments exist especially those concerning technological evolution and shifts in representational strategy. And yet few histories clearly mark out a space for the emergence of the interview subject as one of the standard rhetorical devices in nonfiction film. These “talking heads” ranging in appearance from speaking subjects directly addressing the camera to the testimony of witnesses addressing an on-screen or off-screen interviewer are a dominant feature of contemporary documentary cinema and a basic component of film and television language. While there are various discussions concerning the ideological …

Software Tools For Electronic Wind Instrument Performance, Bruno Degazio

Publications and Scholarship

Even though alternate musical controllers such as the Electronic Wind Instrument (EWI) significantly extend the expressive range of MIDI synthesizers and software virtual instruments, the computer-based editing and manipulation of data produced by these controllers has remained in an undeveloped state. A primary problem has to do with the binding of note data to expressive information such as breath controller and pitch bend data. MIDI, originally designed as a real-time performance protocol, has very weak binding of such data into higher-level musical structures; so weak in fact that even note endings are unconnected to their beginnings. The author describes a …

Jerome Kern All The Things You Are, April 10 – 19, 2008, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Celebrated American composer Jerome Kern often has been critically hailed as the ‘Father of Musical Comedy.’ His enduring popular hits and hauntingly melodic ballads for both Broadway (They Didn’t Believe Me, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man O’ Mine) and Hollywood (The Way You Look Tonight, A Fine Romance, The Last Time I Saw Paris) are testaments to his particular genius. This lively and energetic revue pays tribute to Kern’s overwhelming musical legacy.

Music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Otto Harbach, P.G. Wodehouse, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, et al.

Director & Choreographer: Marc Richard

Musical …

Urinetown, April 8 – 19, 2008, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

The groundbreaking satirical musical spoof is set in a bleak futuristic city suffering from a severe shortage of water where private bathrooms have been outlawed. Citizens must pay crippling fees to use public latrines, which are run by a monopolistic corporation. Those who cannot pay get dragged off to “Urinetown”, a mysterious place from which they never return. Finally, Bobby Strong, the frustrated assistant manager of Amenity #9, leads the people in a courageous pee-for-free rebellion. Winner of 3 Tony Awards (2002), Urinetown is one of the most innovative and uproariously funny musicals in recent years.

Music by Mark Hollman, …

The Barbecue King, February 14 – 23, 2008, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Originally conceived by composers Steve Thomas and Mark Brownell in 2000, The Barbecue King was initially developed in small sections at the Alumnae and Tarragon Theatres. The Barbecue King became a bit of a period piece as the middle class characters represented here have been steadily priced out of cottage country by the Kurt and Goldie's of the world. It is a light musical comedy.

In addition to The Barbeque King the evening opened with Stabat Martha, a piece that celebrates Steve Thomas and Mark Brownell's first collaboration in 1996. This piece was written as a tribute to the "to …

Gypsy, February 12 – 23, 2008, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

In this enduring musical classic, overbearing stage mother Rose is determined to get her younger daughter June into big time vaudeville. However, unwilling to tolerate her mother’s ruthless manipulations, June elopes with a dancer. Rose then turns all of her attention on her older and less talented daughter Louise. Soon after transforming her into a star burlesque stripper known as Gypsy Rose Lee, ‘Mama’ Rose begins to realize that she is no longer needed in her famous daughter’s life.

Based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sodheim, book by Arthur Laurents

Director: …