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Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body (Audio Issues) Christof Migone In Sonic Somatic, the sound artist and theorist Christof Migone looks at sound art’s overlap with other disciplines through its particular uses of articulation. Articulation is explored here in all of its guises: its…
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Hearing Film: Tracking Identifications in Contemporary Hollywood Film Music Anahid Kassabian Music is central to any film, creating a tone for the movie that is just as vital as the visual and narrative components. In recent years, racial and gender diversity in film has exploded,…
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Breathless: Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and the Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia Allen S. Weiss Breathless explores early sound recording and the literature that both foreshadowed its invention and was contemporaneous with its early years, revealing the broad influence of this new technology at the very origins…
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The Coming of Sound Douglas Gomery The coming of sound to film was an event whose importance can hardly be overestimated; sound transformed not only the Hollywood film industry but all of world cinema as well. As economic and film historian Douglas Gomery explains, the…
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Experimental Sound and Radio Allen S. Weiss Art making and criticism have focused mainly on the visual media. This book, which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review, explores the myriad aesthetic, cultural, and experimental possibilities of radiophony and sound art. Taking…
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Sound Theory, Sound Practice Rick Altman Sound Theory/Sound Practice is divided into three major sections: Theoretical Perspectives, Historical Speculations, and Neglected Domains. The entire volume is marked by a revised understanding of cinema and particularly film sound. Individual essays cover such diverse topics as the…
