A very important book in this context is Jonathan Ree (with an acute on the
first e):
'I See a Voice, Language, Deafness & the Senses', London, Harper Collins,
1999.
Michael Chanan
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> Enos
> Sent: 08 December 1999 04:57
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> Subject: Re: Textbook suggestions, anyone?
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>
> Sean Cubitt said:
> >After Katherine's mention of Attali's _Noise_ (Minnesota in the US,
> >Manchester UP in the UK; _Film Sound_ BTW is probably the Elisabeth
> >Weis and John Belton anthology; alternatively Rick Altamn's
> >collection)
>
> I'm hoping to get to unpacking the books this weekend. When I find _Film
> Sound_ I'll send the author and publisher names to the list.
>
> Also, I think that Sean's slant on approaching sound in cinema is a great
> one and a good start at looking at a subject too scantily explored in film
> schools. Brakhage is an interesting one to explore too, when
> thinking about
> the presence or absence of sound in cinema. I think it was Cage who
> remarked that there was no such thing as silence. And in silent films you
> always have the sound of the projector. In Brakhage's films the visual
> rhythm of the cutting speaks as sound. There may also be structuralist
> filmmakers who used sound with the violence of the flash frame used in a
> Paul Sharits experimental short (_Flicker_? I have forgotten the name).
>
> A detail: I recently saw a performance by the Japanese performance group
> Dumb Type. The sound score was arguably the best part of the performance;
> there was the heavy and jarring use of "noise" during some parts of the
> performance (analogous to the searing and repetitive flash of strobe
> lighting during some of the performance), so much so that ear plugs were
> distributed to audience members arriving for the show.
>
> k.
>
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>
> "People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring
> explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is
> subversive about
> love and what is positive in the refusal of constraint, have corpses in
> their mouths."
> --
> Raoul Vaneigem
>
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