Theatres in ancient Greece and Aristotle's poetics -- The vocal map of ancient Greek drama -- Case study : Aristophanes's The frogs -- Vitruvius on acoustics : de architectura -- Shakespeare's Globe and Francis Bacon's Sylva sylvarum -- Acoustic world-making on the early modern stage -- Case study : Shakespeare's The tempest -- A sonic imagination of early modern London -- New technologies for sound performance -- Case study : Luigi Russolo's Intonamuri and "the art of noise" -- Hanging on the telephone : Sigmund Freud and Roland Barthes -- Case study : Jean Cocteau's The human voice -- The sounds of silence : John Cage's Future of music -- Acousmatics and radiophonics : Pierre Schaffer and the BBC -- Aura and archive : making sound memories -- Case study : Samuel Beckett's Krapp's last tape -- Prosthetic performance and deterritorialised listening -- Case study : Janet Cardiff's Sound walks -- Listening to women : Andrea Hornick and Luce Irigaray -- Affective theatres of embodied sound -- Case study : Shannon Yee's "Reassembled slightly askew" -- Case study : Rimini Protokoll's Situation rooms -- Coda : sound across the world.