Opera is Dead, Long Live APPERAs, Micro-Republics, LARPs and Voice Parties! : A Portfolio of Extended Music Theatre (EMT) Experiences

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This practice-based research project explores the creation and development of novel forms of Extended Music Theatre (EMT) by investigating, integrating and reframing everyday structures, technologies, spaces, and vocalities. The research responds to the increasing hybridisation of contemporary performance practices and the extension of human experience across physical and digital realms through four interconnected investigative strategies: 1) interdisciplinary integration of seemingly diverse practices, including live action role-playing (LARP), theatre games, and film; 2) application of everyday digital technologies such as mobile applications, blockchain systems and social media platforms as fundamental compositional structures; 3) spatial experimentation with un- conventional locations and digital environments to create distributed performance experiences; and 4) vocal exploration through multiple vocalities, oralities, and communicative modes in cross-arts contexts.
The portfolio comprises five interconnected projects documented through film, audio recordings, and digital artefacts: VOXXCOIN (blockchain-based vocal performance), The Voice Party (functioning simultaneously as a political party and EMT framework), LETHE (LARP-based site-specific piece), SINGLR (app-based vocal dating experience), and Republica Františsšsšsšsšs (micro-republic as performance architecture). Collectively, these works address the research questions through their diverse approaches to participation, site-specificity, and technological integration.
The research demonstrates how EMT can engage directly with the systems that shape contemporary experience, functioning not merely as aesthetic expressions but as critical apparatuses for examining social, economic, technological, and political frameworks. By developing methodologies that acknowledge our extended existence across physical and digital realms, the project reveals how EMT can create performances that span multiple domains simultaneously, challenging conventional understandings of presence, participation, and creative agency in the digital age.

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Supervisors:	reuben, federico
Keywords:	extended music theatre, opera, dating apps, voice, new vocality, site specificity, interspecies communication, micro republics, LARP, film, blockchain, NFT, The Voice Party, The Sonic Voice Party, politics, Brexit, electroacoustic music, participation, digital spaces
Awarding institution:	University of York
Academic Units:	The University of York > School of Arts and Creative Technologies (York)
Depositing User:	Ms Lore Lixenberg
Date Deposited:	18 Aug 2025 13:29
Last Modified:	18 Aug 2025 13:29
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:etheses.whiterose.ac.uk:37130

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