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.