Theatre Music and Sound at the RSC by Millie Taylor

Author:Millie Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319952222
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Woolfenden recalled that the battle needed to start and finish ‘realistically’, but the middle needed to reach a vicious climax of horses, bugles, arrows, shouts and the clash of arms over the increasingly screeching sword noise accomplished through layering sounds and editing the sequence. Even beyond this something extra was required to create tension. The pair decided that during the previous speech an underscoring sound should begin so that the battle seemed to grow organically from the speech, linking the whole sequence together. To achieve this, they recorded continuous bowing on a tam-tam; when continuously bowed the instrument vibrates such that the sound increases in pitch and intensity. Finally, after the great climax of the sound tape the metallic sound was faded again leaving a ‘realistic’ battle among the actors onstage and the focus returned to the action. Collison continues the story:The background to the effect we called the “undertow” was Guy bowing on a tam-tam with the sound starting in the mid-range and building higher and higher until it was a screeching crescendo. To this we added other metallic sounds including noises to mirror the previous more realistic arrow effects. Where we wanted basic battle horn calls – not formal fanfares – I recorded Guy blowing various instruments including a trumpet mouthpiece pushed into a piece of rubber tubing with a large kitchen funnel pushed into the other end. It was a convincing horn, but then he said he would like to try a more muted sound. This he achieved by placing the funnel on top of his head. When I looked up from the tape recorder and saw this ridiculous sight, I could not carry on for laughing. (Collison 2016)

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