[Frameworks] Sound-centric films: excellence in sound design

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> On Nov 14, 2021, at 12:43 AM, Marc Couroux <couroux at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Definitely look at the work of the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard. Leviathan would be a good place to start!
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>> On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 7:46 PM Marcin Gizycki <mgizycki at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> „Enthusiasm” by Dziga Vertov, 1931 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUInm2dC6Ug. It is an amazing early example of what you are looking for.
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>> From: Frameworks <frameworks-bounces at film-gallery.org> On Behalf Of Andrew Skalak
>> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2021 11:24 PM
>> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at film-gallery.org>
>> Subject: [Frameworks] Sound-centric films: excellence in sound design
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> This is a narrative film, but in this realm is “Out of Tune” by Aaron With: 
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>> https://vimeo.com/488308481
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks you all,
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>> Andrew
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