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 > --- > www.krislimbach.com > 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] >>> -- >>> Frameworks mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org > > Links: > ------ > [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/ -- Best regards, Jim mailto:[email protected] -- Frameworks mailing list [email protected] https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
