A Consciência do Som

Authors

  • Carlos Alberto Augusto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26512/dramaturgias.v0i5.8104

Keywords:

Theatre, Integrated Information Theory, Consciousness, Sound, Settings.

Abstract

Tragedy, Aristotle wrote in the Poetics, exists even without performance or actors. It is therefore implicit in the written text that cast it to posterity. Is it alive then? Or does it become alive as it is performed? How? What does it mean exactly to breath life into a text? Can a theatrical text have a soul? Or is tragedy something else altogether? Can a theatrical performance have consciousness? Tononi’s Integrated Information Theory is a tool, developed in the course of brain studies, that can help shed light on these questions.

Author Biography

  • Carlos Alberto Augusto

    Compositor, designer sonoro. Publicou Sons e Silêncios da Paisagem Sonora Portuguesa (Lisboa: Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, 2016)

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Published

2017-10-27

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