[Frameworks] Texts on sound design in animation

[Albert Alcoz]

Hello Chris and Bernard,
I just wanted to add one reference to this topic. It concerns the initial
work of the American composer Tod Dockstader
<https://soundartarchive.net/ARTISTS-details.php?recordID=133>. He created
the sound design for animations as *Mr. Magoo* and *Gerald Mc Boing* at the
beginning of his career. I don't know if there's an article about it
though. I'd like to mention that John Stehura used his music (the theme
"Tango" <https://dockstader.bandcamp.com/track/quatermass-tango> from the
*Quatermass* LP) for the marvelous film *Cibernetik 5.3*.
Best,
Albert


On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 7:04 PM Bernard Roddy <roddybp0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Christopher:
>
> Thank you for initiating this discussion topic. Albert Alcoz has provided
> a document that is available without download. I am looking past the
> introduction of Oskar Fischinger, where Rudolph Pfenninger's research is
> taken up: "Eschewing aesthetic discourse entirely, Pfenninger focused on
> the technological development of a new form of acoustic writing [. . . ]."
> This kind of essay is really part of a history of technology. The question,
> however, seems to ask how sound is being thought within contemporary
> practice. That's going to be a little trickier to come up with,
> particularly if you are searching in the spirit of Fischinger (in other
> words, not looking at cartoons). For me this kind of interest led me to
> sound poetics as one can sample at ubu.com, and to the artistic
> exploration of sound that even resists being identified with music.
> Particularly if you are attracted to the idea of scoring a soundtrack,
> Pierre Schaeffer's In Search of a Concrete Music is pretty cool. It's as if
> the whole approach to experiment in film now takes up the use of pots and
> pans in order to unfold a unique aural experience that is neither verbal
> nor musical.
>
> Of course "sound design' is already a term from a rather more mainstream
> current of academic to professional study.
>
> Bernie
>
> - - - - -
>
> *On Oct 14, 2020, at 10:23 AM, Chris G <spydir at gmail.com <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks>> wrote:
> *>>* 
> *>* Hi all,
> *>>* I am looking for titles of literature on sound design in animation whether
> *>* they're articles, essays or books. It would be helpful if they were
> *>* accessible in the free world or usual academic libraries' digital
> *>* collections.
> *>>* Best,
> *>* Christopher*
>
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