Overview
- 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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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.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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From Bresson Towards a Phenomenological Approach to Film and Film Sound: Phenomenology Delivers a Useful Theoretical Framework
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Part III
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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
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