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SOUNDSCAPE
Exploring the Art of Sound with the Moving Images
The School of Sound Lectures 1998-2001

Edited by Larry Sider

224 pages Columbia University Press (US), Wallflower Press (UK) 2003

You can buy this book at
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"Provocative examinations of modern film soundtrack and the way sound combines with image in both art and entertainment...a unique perspective." – Cinescape




The School of Sound is a unique annual event exploring the use of sound in film, which has attracted practitioners, academics and artists from around the world.

SOUNDSCAPE is the first compendium of the event's presentations that investigate the modern soundtrack and the ways sound combines with image in both art and entertainment.

The many contributors include directors David Lynch and Mike Figgis; Oscar-winning sound designer Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now); composer Carter Burwell (Coen Brothers); theorists Laura Mulvey and Michel Chion; critic Peter Wollen; film-makers Mani Kaul and Peter Kubelka; music producer Manfred Eicher and poet Tom Paulin.

About the Author:
Larry Sider is Director of the School of Sound and Head of Production at the National Film and Television School (UK). He has been a film editor and sound designer for 25 years and has contributed to Filmwaves, Framework, Vertigo and several professional periodicals.

1
 Mike Figgis
Silence: The Absence of Sound ........................................................
1

2

Laura Mulvey
Cinema, Sync Sound and Europe 1929: Reflections on Coincidence
15
3 Stephen Deutch
Music for Interactive Moving Pictures ...................................................
28
4 Tom Paulin
The Despotism of the Eye ....................................................................
35
5 David Lynch
Action and Reaction ...............................................................................
49
6 James Leahy
A Slap of Sea and Tickle of Sand: Echoes of Sounds Past ..............
54
7 Thanos Vovolis
The Voice and the Mask in Ancient Greek Tragedy ............................
73
8 Walter Murch
Touch of Silence ......................................................................................
83
9 Shoma Chatterji
Silence Juxtaposed against Sound in Contemporary Indian Cinema
103
10 Owe Svensson
On Tarkovsky´s The Sacrifice .................................................................
112
11 David Burnand
Tarkovsky's Gift ........................................................................................
118
12 Randy Thom
Designing a Movie for Sound ..................................................................
121
13 Amie Siegel
Violations, Indescretions and Narrative Expectations in Film Sound
138
14 Michel Chion
The Silence of the Loudspeackers, or Why with Dolby Sound it is the Film That Listens To US ............................................................................
150
15 Manfred Eicher
Listening, Listening, Listening, or Images for the Ear ...........................
155
16 Ian Christie
Asynchrony .................................................................................................
161
17 Bob Last
Construction Consensus, Encouraging Difference ...............................
170
18 Phil Parker
Filling the Gaps .........................................................................................
184
19 Carter Burwell
Composing for the Coen Brothers ...........................................................
195
20 Mani Kaul
The Rambling Figure ................................................................................
209
21 Peter Wollen
24 Mismatches of Sound and Image .......................................................
221
 
 

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