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

[Albert Alcoz]

*Hacked Circuit* (2014) by Deborah Stratman about the sound restoration of *The
Conversation* by Coppola.
http://www.pythagorasfilm.com/hacked-circuit.html

Try to find this book: *Film Sound: Theory and Practice* by Elisabeth Weis
and John Belton, for example.

In fact there are dozens of experimental films concerning sound as the main
topic...
Here are some of them
<http://www.visionaryfilm.net/2017/12/peliculas-de-resonancias-filmicas.html>
.

On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 7:19 AM owen at thenowcorporation.com <
owen at thenowcorporation.com> wrote:

> “Thanatopsis” Ed Emshwiller
> “Harmonica” Larry Gottheim
> “OffOn” Scott Bartlett
>
> enjoy!
> owen
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> On Nov 14, 2021, at 12:43 AM, Marc Couroux <couroux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Definitely look at the work of the Sensory Ethnography Lab
> <https://sel.fas.harvard.edu/> at Harvard. Leviathan would be a good
> place to start!
> M
>
> 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.
>>
>> Marcin
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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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
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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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks you all,
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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