The Salon hosts reflective conversations between scholars, curators, artists and cultural agitators on any topic related to speech, sound and performance-making, aiming to both broaden and deepen the exchange between sound and speech on the contemporary stage and in adjacent disciplines. 

Prompted by one of the foundational aims of the Aural/Oral Dramaturgies project to re-imagine the format of a ‘conference paper’, and catalysed by Covid19, the Salon erects a conference hall within a virtual space between living rooms, and delivers the form of an academic essay as a dialogic, collaborative, verbal improvisation.  

Each commissioned conversation includes an exchange of ‘sonic cues’: recordings, live sounds, songs, audio-memories or background noises which serve to engage the listeners’ imagination and provide an inner structure for the conversation. 

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