Chapter 3
The Great Mystery of Time
Introduction: Babbling in Babelsberg
In acknowledging that sound is primarily a temporal form of perception, we suddenly find ourselves needing to broach the question, “What is time, anyway?” For most of the history of civilization we were content to consider that time was simply what we measured using seconds, minutes, hours, days, and years. That all changed when Einstein blew up our conventional understanding of the nature of time with his special theory of relativity. Einstein’s theory coincided with the Modernists, theatrical practitioners who experimented with the experience of time in the theatre. Could there be a relationship between the relativity of time and the theatrical experience? If so, how do ...
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