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The Audiovisual Chord

Embodied Listening in Film

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Authors:
  1. Martine Huvenne

    1. Ghent, Belgium

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  • Proposes a new approach that is based on embodied listening
  • Uniquely contrasts the experience of listeners with the intentions of designers
  • Includes original interviews with film sound practitioners

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Sound (PASTS)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Martine Huvenne
    Pages 1-5

  3. From Bresson Towards a Phenomenological Approach to Film and Film Sound: Phenomenology Delivers a Useful Theoretical Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.”

      • Martine Huvenne
      Pages 9-25

    3. Audiovisual Perception: The Audiovisual Contract, Heautonomy of Sound and Image and Filmic Listening

      • Martine Huvenne
      Pages 27-43

    4. Phenomenology, an Introduction

      • Martine Huvenne
      Pages 45-74

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 285-317
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About this book

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.

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)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Ghent, Belgium

    Martine Huvenne

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Audiovisual Chord

  • Book Subtitle: Embodied Listening in Film

  • Authors: Martine Huvenne

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Sound

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4807-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-4806-0Published: 14 December 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-4809-1Published: 14 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-4807-7Published: 13 December 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2633-5875

  • Series E-ISSN: 2633-5883

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 317

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Science and Technology Studies, Film Theory, Audio-Visual Culture, Phenomenology

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