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The Audiovisual Chord
Embodied Listening in Film
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Book Presentation:
This book is a phenomenological approach to film sound and film as a whole, bringing all sensory impressions together within the body as a sense of movement. This includes embodied listening, felt sound and the audiovisual chord as a dynamic knot of visual and auditory movements. From this perspective, auditory spaces in film can be used as a pivot between an inner and an external world.
About the Author:
Dr. Martine Huvenne retired after a career teaching and researching in the audio-visual field. She was a senior lecturer in Sound and Music for Film at the Kask & Conservatorium (Hogent-Howest), Belgium, where she developed a phenomenological approach to music and listening.
Press Reviews:
"For too long we have thought of sounds and images as separate elements to be joined together to make a film. We’ve got things back to front. Martine Huvenne wants us to turn things the right way round again, by reinstating looking and listening as inseparably entwined movements of the sensing body. This is a book that will literally strike a chord, not just with students of film, but with every scholar interested in the world of sensory experience." (Tim Ingold, Emeritus Professor, University of Aberdeen, UK)
"Only a few books have made me rethink my understanding of sound design, and this is one. Huvenne uses notions of music, dance and film, practice and philosophy, to create a new analysis of how film sound operates. She focuses on the way the audience perceives – feels – the complex movement between image and sound. With references ranging from Merleau-Ponty to Murch, this is a new attitude towards film sound for filmmakers and theorists alike." (Larry Sider, The School of Sound, UK)
"I recommend vividly the lecture of this book to everybody who is interested in sound. Martine Huvenne opened my mind and ears to the central importance of the physicality of sonorous experience through the gesture, the gesture of the foley artist, of the musician, of the field recordist, of the mixer etc. Her writings have had a positive impact on my work as a sound practitioner." (Nicolas Becker, sound designer)
See the publisher website: Palgrave MacMillan
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Sound Design is the New Score (2019)
Theory, Aesthetics, and Erotics of the Integrated Soundtrack
Unusual Sounds (2018)
The Hidden History of Library Music
Situated Listening (2016)
The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema
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