Archive for the ‘Film Sound’ Category
My Fuzzy Warbles }{ Disc Three }{ Only Lovers Left Alive (12″ Limited EP)
“Remember that 12 inch I was telling you about? Check it out man.” “Woah.” “Triple black man.” “That’s great. 180 gram vinyl?” “180 gram man.” “Amazing.” “Yeah. No printing anywhere.” “Yeah that’s awesome. So mysterious.” It’s intermission in a small Detroit rock club. The White Hills have just finished up a set. Adam has been […]
In: Film Reviews, Film Sound, Music, My Fuzzy Warbles, Phonography, Sound Technology
City Song : A Forgotten Gem from the CBC Vancouver Archives
The UN has declared October 27th World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, intended to function “as a mechanism to raise general awareness of the need for urgent measures to be taken and to acknowledge the importance of audiovisual documents as an integral part of national identity.” In that spirit I’m posting a short essay (see below) that […]
In: Archives, Film Reviews, Film Sound, Music, Uncategorized, Vancouver on Film, Vancouver Soundscape
Film Review }{ El Desierto (Christoph Behl, 2013)
It’s a zombie apocalypse in an arid region of Argentina. Ana, Jonathan and Axel form a trio of survivors holed up in a makeshift fortress and entangled in an increasingly awkward love triangle. They monitor the surrounding landscape via a set of microphones positioned around the property, visualized through a quick montage at the film’s […]
In: Film Reviews, Film Sound
Vancouver Soundscape Chronicles }{ My Arrival
It’s World Listening Day! To help mark the day I am beginning a new blog series reporting on my post-doctoral research with the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University. I begin with my arrival on campus and immersion within the WSP community last fall. September 2012 was a spectacular time to be in Vancouver. […]
In: Architecture, Film Sound, Sound Technology, Vancouver Soundscape
Film Review }{ The Delian Mode
Today is the inaugural edition of Delia Derbyshire Day! Events include a mini-symposium in Manchester to honour her pioneering work in electronic music, featuring a screening of The Delian Mode by Canadian filmmaker Kara Blake. In support of the day I’m re-posting my review of the film, originally published as part of my report on […]
In: Film Reviews, Film Sound, Music, Sound Technology · Tagged with: BBC Radiophonics Workshop, Delia Derbyshire, Delia Derbyshire Day, Dr. Who, Film Soundtracks, Kara Blake, The Delian Mode
Schizophonographics* }{ Side A }{ Fourth Cut
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In: Film Sound, Phonography, Schizophonographics · Tagged with: A Zed and Two Naughts, Peter Greenaway, Phonography, Schizophonia, Schizophonographics, Sound Theory, Tom Gunning
Schizophonographics* }{ Side A }{ Third Cut
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In: Film Sound, Phonography, Schizophonographics · Tagged with: 78 rpm, Ghost World, Haunted Media, Jeffrey Sconce, Phonography, Schizophonia, Sound Theory, Terry Zwigoff
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In: Film Sound, Phonography, Schizophonographics · Tagged with: David Lynch, Film Soundtracks, Friedrich Kittler, Gramophone Film Typewriter, Inland Empire, Phonography, Schizophonia, Schizophonographics, Sound Theory
Schizophonographics* }{ Side A }{ First Cut
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In: Film Sound, Phonography, Schizophonographics · Tagged with: Dennison Ramalho, Film Soundtracks, Love from Mother Only, Phonography, R. Murray Schafer, Schizophonia, Schizophonographics, Sound Theory, The Curves of the Needle, Theodor Adorno
4’33” in the Soundscape of a Haunted Guggenheim
The first time I went into Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum in New York City a couple of years ago I was immediately confronted with a cacophony that suggested a blatant case of the sight-centered approach to architecture from which so many modernist buildings suffer: looks fantastic, and sounds awful. Or as R. Murray Schafer […]
In: Architecture, Film Sound, Sound Installation · Tagged with: Acoustic Design, Acoustics, Architecture, Emily Thopmson, Film Soundtracks, Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim, R. Murray Schafer, Schizophonia, Soundscape of Modernity