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Sonic Realities – Call For Papers/Works
Sonic Realities is a conference organised by University of Aberdeen’s Sound Emporium Research Group (SERG). Keynote speakers are professors Cathy Lane and Michel Chion. The conference will run on the 25th and 26th of May. Interpretations and representations of reality benefit…
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Sounding the Archives: Sounding the past towards a future living archive
A message from the author: The following is writing from an earlier time in my recent research project, Wayback Sound Machine: Sound through time, space, and place. It felt an appropriate beginning to share here as the first part of the…
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Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise, New Book by Michel Chion
Duke University Press has announced the arrival of Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise, the first English translation of Michel Chion‘s Le Son book, originally published in French in 1998 and revised in 2010, where the author explores a wide variety of…
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Film, a Sound Art (Film and Culture Series) Michel Chion French critic and composer Michel Chion argues that watching movies is more than just a visual exercise—it enacts a process of audio-viewing. The audiovisual makes use of a wealth of…
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The Voice in Cinema Michel Chion How can a voice whose source is never seen—such as Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey or the mother of Norman Bates in Psycho—have such a powerful hold on an audience? When does “synchronized…
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Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen Michel Chion In Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen, French critic and composer Michel Chion reassesses audiovisual media since the revolutionary 1927 debut of recorded sound in cinema, shedding crucial light on the mutual relationship between sound and…