The Music and Sound of Experimental Film
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 September 2017
- ISBN 9780190469900
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 150x231x20 mm
- Weight 567 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 halftone, 7 line art 0
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Short description:
This book explores the role of music and sound in experimental film from the earliest work of pioneers such as Walther Ruttmann to latter-day experiments with new and digital media. Chapters examine issues relating to the avant-garde, abstraction, animation, found footage, queer film, visual music and VJing.
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This book explores music/sound-image relationships in non-mainstream screen repertoire from the earliest examples of experimental audiovisuality to the most recent forms of expanded and digital technology. It challenges presumptions of visual primacy in experimental cinema and rethinks screen music discourse in light of the aesthetics of non-commercial imperatives. Several themes run through the book, connecting with and significantly enlarging upon current critical discourse surrounding realism and audibility in the fiction film, the role of music in mainstream cinema, and the audiovisual strategies of experimental film. The contributors investigate repertoires and artists from Europe and the USA through the critical lenses of synchronicity and animated sound, interrelations of experimentation in image and sound, audiovisual synchresis and dissonance, experimental soundscape traditions, found-footage film, re-mediation of pre-existent music and sound, popular and queer sound cultures, and a diversity of radical technological, aesthetic, tropes in film media traversing the work of early pioneers such as Walther Ruttmann and Len Lye, through the mid-century innovations of Norman McLaren, Stan Brakhage, Lis Rhodes, Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol, and studio collectives in Poland, to latter-day experimentalists John Smith and Bill Morrison, as well as the contemporary practices of Vjing.
A truly multidisciplinary volume where scholars in film studies, musicology, media studies, and sound studies not only appear side by side, but they also speak to each other as they unpack innovative techniques used to create novel and fascinating experiences of music, sound, and the moving image.
Table of Contents:
Preface: Jeremy Barham
Introduction: Holly Rogers
Chapter 1: Absolute Sounding Images: Abstract Film and Radio Drama of the 1920s as Complementary Forms of a Media Specific Art, Dieter Daniels
Chapter 2: A Primitivism of the Senses: The Role of Music in Len Lye's Experimental Animation,
Malcolm Cook
Chapter 3: An Educational Avant-Garde: Sound and Music in Julien Bryan's OIAA Films on Latin America, 1942-1949, James Tobias
Chapter 4: bup bup bup: Aural Innovation in the Films of Norman McLaren, Terence Dobson
Chapter 5: Sights and Sounds of the Moving Mind: The Visionary Soundtracks of Stan Brakhage, Eric Smigel
Chapter 6: Discontinuities and Resynchronisations: The Use of Sound in Polish Experimental Cinema from the 1930s to the 1980s, Daniel Muzyczuk
Chapter 7: Grid Intensities: Hearing Structures in Chantal Akerman's Films of the 1970s, Paul Hegarty
Chapter 8: Meaning and Musicality: Sound-Image Relations in the Films of John Smith, Andy Birtwistle
Chapter 9: Audiovisual Dissonance in Found-Footage Film, Holly Rogers
Chapter 10: Rebalancing the Picture/Sound Relationship: The Audiovisual Compositions of Lis Rhodes, Aimee Mollaghan
Chapter 11: Sounding Decay in the Digital Age: Audio-Visions of Decasia (2002) and Lyrical Nitrate (1991), Nessa Johnston
Chapter 12: The Sound of Queer Experimental Film, Juan A. Suárez
Chapter 13: Avant-Gardists and the Lure of Pop Music, Carol Vernallis
Chapter 14: The Music of Gustav Mahler in Experimental Film Contexts: Questions of Visual Music and Intermedial Theory, Jeremy Barham
