Chion's work on David Lynch also spends a lot of time addressing sound, as well.

And _Eraserhead_ definitely belongs on the list for the initial question.


Sunday, November 14, 2021, 2:29:19 AM, you wrote:

>  Hi Andrew, 

> I know you asked about films and not books, but anyways this could be
> helpful: 

> As Rob suggested, Michel Chions book "Film, a sound art" goes in depth
> with any kind of sound design and connection to the visual of film.
> Interestingly it spares out experimental cinema as a whole. It has a
> huge list of referenced films and not seldom after watching a movie i
> pick up the book and see if there is anything Chion had to say about the
> sound. 

> Good luck and best, 

> Kris

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> Am 14.11.2021 11:16 schrieb Rob Gawthrop: 

>> Hi Andrew 
>> 
>> Your initial statement raises the ongoing problematic of the ontology of 
>> film: if the statement was ...and make exceptional use of light, then the 
>> dominance of language over the 'sensible' becomes even more apparent. (so 
>> called) experimental film tends to deal more with the audio-visual and as 
>> such is primarily concerned with seeing and hearing. There have been 
>> surprisingly few texts on the subject until comparatively recently, Dziga 
>> Vertov, Rudolph Arnheim, Michel Chion and Rick Altman spring to mind. In my 
>> chapter "Thunder and Lightening" in "Reverberations" I expanded this 
>> separation of sound (noise) and image and included Vertov's _Enthusiasm_, 
>> Eisenstein & Alexandrov's _Romance Sentimentale_ and Ruttman's (film for 
>> radio) _Weekend _as examples 
>> _ _ 
>> I would also sugest works by_ _Wojciech Bruszewski, Jeff Keen, Jo Millett, 
>> Jenny Okun, Guy Sherwin, and myself 
>> 
>> Best Wishes 
>> 
>> Rob 
>> 
>>> On 13 Nov 2021, at 22:24, Andrew Skalak <[email protected]> wrote: 
>>> 
>>> Hello everyone, 
>>> 
>>> I am interested in finding films that are particularly interested in and 
>>> make exceptional use of sound. I would say films that are sound-centric 
>>> even: where sound is the primary device of the film above the image. In the 
>>> narrative world I think the filmmaker that has best explored this is 
>>> Lucrecia Martel. 
>>> 
>>> A great and classic text on what I am trying to explore is Randy Thom's 
>>> 1999 essay on designing films for sound, as opposed to designing sound for 
>>> film: https://www.filmsound.org/articles/designing_for_sound.htm [1]. 
>>> 
>>> I am interested in films with very rich and layered field recording; heavy, 
>>> extreme, or absurd foley; innovative microphone techniques such as contact 
>>> microphones, hydrophones, binaural audio, spatial audio recording; unique 
>>> sound post processing, etc. If there are any films that are not necessarily 
>>> sound-centric, but someone feels really struck then sonically I'm very 
>>> interested in that as well. 
>>> 
>>> I am also interested in films that make use of surround sound and the 
>>> surround space in ways not possible in narrative films, though I may not be 
>>> able to experience them online or without seeing them in a theater. 
>>> 
>>> This is a narrative film, but in this realm is "Out of Tune" by Aaron With: 
>>> https://vimeo.com/488308481 [2] 
>>> 
>>> I'm definitely most interested in films I can watch or rent online, but any 
>>> films that only exist on prints or are hard to see I am more than happy to 
>>> add to a list to hopefully watch some day. 
>>> 
>>> Thanks you all, 
>>> Andrew -- 
>>> 
>>> (563) 210-3321 
>>> Cinematographer, Filmmaker - Chicago, IL 
>>> Cinematography Reel [3]
>>> 
>>> www.andrewskalak.com [4] 
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> Links:
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> [1] https://www.filmsound.org/articles/designing_for_sound.htm
> [2] https://vimeo.com/488308481
> [3] https://vimeo.com/282369276/4ccebdbc30
> [4] http://www.andrewskalak.com/



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