the soundtrack for moonlight was composed by Nicholas Britell who has also composed for many films and tv shows such as don’t look up, succession and vice. I had already seen moonlight before rewatching it for the course, I remember enjoying it the first time I watched it and the themes of homosexuality and race were still the first thing that I thought of when looking at the film again for the first time in many years. the film has a powerful message
Month: October 2022
Audio Paper Planning
For my audio paper I have been researching audio within VR and more precisely clubbing and the rave scene within VR. I am going to be doing research into mainly VRChat which is one of the largest leading platforms on VR because of it’s endless possibilities.
I have found out about various online digital Virtual clubs that host monthly events. The ones that mainly excite me are Shelter and GHOSTCLUB.
GHOSTCLUB is a Japan based club
Takashi Ito – Ghost
Ghost was released 1984, “I made this work because I wanted to try out the idea of floating images in midair that had come to me when making Thunder. The entire work was shot frame-by-frame with long exposures. I filmed this in the company dorm I was living in in the middle of the night after I had come home from work, and thought I might die from what had become my daily pattern of sleeping for two hours in the morning then going off to work.” – Takashi Ito
Sound was done by Yosuke Inagak. The sound in Ghost is beautiful, it is very grainy and filled with ambience. It consists of a lot of beautiful sweeping droning pads that almost sound like they’re clipping. It also contains natural sounding sounds such as the sound of rats squeaking which can’t be seen on screen.
The film experiments with ” the most basic dimensions of cinematic illusion, such as space depth, lightning and movement, to create a visual feast that seems to touch on the horror genre”.
https://letterboxd.com/film/ghost-1984/
http://thesoundofeye.blogspot.com/2010/07/takashi-ito-ghost-1984.html
“The single frame, varied and repeated, combined to grant the inner eye the illusion of motion. This photographic essence, this basic cinematic unit, is Ito Takashi’s obsession, and the beginning of our voyage through his oeuvre: The single iterative frame as the artistic element of space-time, and the source of the cinematic alchemist’s mastery over his art. It is an art on the frontier between stop-motion and motion, between the stillness of the photograph and the action of the motion-picture.” https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/ghosts-of-time-and-light-the-experimental-cinema-of-ito-takashi
Sound for screen – Week 5
Stalker –
part one – starts with ambient droning pads, based upon roadside picnic, sound by V Sharun, conductor E.Khachaturyan. middle eastern style sitar and flute first scene doesn’t include music which creates lots of silence compared to the previous introduction scene, doesn’t really have a musical score, mainly just on screen sounds, the film has created very genuinely a artificial place and appears very authentic, repetitive noise of the train going down the tracks, has off screen sounds that i couldn’t make out what they represented
off screen wolf scream, mostly dialogue in beginning, off screen squelching foley in mud, already having watched a quarter of the film I am not blown away by the sound it’s very minimal and silent at times , it makes the film feel very natural, first signs of music, psychedelic jangly song.
part two – birds chirping, natural water sound even though neither can be seen on screen, piano keys, metallic footsteps
the zone – let’s good pass and bad di
reading –
Stalker – Tarkovsky
starts with ambient droning pads,
based upon roadside picnic
sound by V Sharun, conductor E.Khachaturyan.
middle eastern style sitar and flute
first scene doesn’t include music which creates lots of silence compared to the previous introduction scene, doesn’t really have a musical score, mainly jsut on screen sounds, the film has created very genuinely a artificial place and appears very authentic, repetitive meditative beat of the noise of the train going down the tracks, has off screen sounds that i couldn’t make out what they represented
off screen wolf scream, mostly dialogue in beginning, off screen squelching foley in mud, already having watched a quarter of the film I am not blown away by the sound it’s very minimal and silent at times , it makes the film feel very natural, first signs of music, psychedelic jangly song.
part two – birds chirping, natural water sound even though neither can be seen on screen, piano keys, metallic footsteps, water droplets,
many silent parts within the film
it took me multiple watchings and sit downs to complete the film, I found it to be a chore to watch, I think this was mainly because of the loose plot and the whole existential aspect of the film.
“you were talking of the meaning, of our life, of the unselfishness of art, take music for instance, less than anything else, it is connected to reality, or if connected at all, it’s done mechanically, not by the way of ideas, just by a sheer sound, devoid of any associations. and yet music, as is by some miracle, gets through to our heart.
long drawn out scenes that could be half the time,”
the film made me think about how i could use silence within my work and how not every second of the score has to be filled with sound or dialogue.
because in my opinion there’s not much visual stimulation
sand dunes – metallic psychedelic music starts and stops
the zone – let’s good pass and bad die
Sound, Wellbeing and Disability Representation
The audience for my audio essay is going to be people that are interested in the online rave scene, this is going to be people who interact with the internet daily and also who have access to Virtual Reality. The target age for my audio essay is going to be 15-25 year olds as I think anyone younger than this wouldn’t be interested as they will not be allowed to go to events in real life and anyone older would not be interested as they have spent most of their lives clubbing in person and may be opposed to doing it virtually.
Glossary of terms-
VR – Virtual Reality
Oculus – A company that releases VR headsets.
Anime – a style of Japanese film and television animation, typically aimed at adults as well as children.
Rave – “a lively party involving dancing and drinking.”
Playlist –
My subject for my audio paper is VR Rave Culture. I want to introduce it to the audience with the voices of people who participate in these events and what they enjoy about them. I will introduce the topic through talking about how COVID and the new development of easily accessible virtual reality headsets such as the Meta Quest VR have made access to VR the easiest it has ever been and has sparked a new interest in an underground virtual reality club scene. I am going to be using text to speech to protect the users privacy and to help them stay anonymous.
Performing Sound For Screen
Week 3 – Specialising and Exhibiting
creating fm synth using pure data- I hadn’t used pure data before this lesson, I had dabbled in python and terminal but was always felt that coding was too hard and always felt like there was a gap in my knowledge that had to be filled before I could start doing it.
free as in speech and beer
“Free software means that the users have the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share the software. Thus, free software is a matter of liberty, not price. We have been defending the rights of all software users for the past 35 years.” – Free Software Foundation
Week 2 – Specialising and Exhibiting
Gaze –
The Nine Muses –
Blackboards –
John Akomfrah – he is invested in the sonic, explained an experience he had listening to BBC 3 which changed the way he viewed the sonic and time. The Nine Muses, used BBC television clips looking at the west midlands, working with BBC archive material, he’s interested in exploring the archive and looking at the relationship between asian and black migration to the west midlands, he strips the soundtrack k of the archive material and re-contextualises the work, recorded over the white BBC perspective and re-recorded and changed the narrative of the footage.
Acousmetre – a kind of voice-character specific to cinema that derives mysterious powers from being heard and not seen. The disembodied voice seems to come from everywhere and therefore to have no clearly defined limits to its power.
Cinema Verite – Jean Rouch, Cassavettes
Syncheresis – The forging between something one sees and something one hears.
Laura Mulvey – Female, Male Gaze spectator and spectacle, object and objectified, voice and voiceless, representation and otherness.
We need to talk about Kevin beginning of film – sound of bow being pulled back and arrow shooting, visuals of La Tomatina represent the events that take happen within the film, there are screams under the sounds of La Tomatina, scene outside the house represents the end.