Title: acousmatic foley

acousmatic foley

“Acousmatic Foley” is a practice-based research on sound dramaturgy that bridges Musique Concrète and Foley Art. It proposes a perspective on creating, performing and listening to sound which emerges from both traditions. 
On the one hand, the main principle of acousmatic music is to disengage sound from its visual source. On the other hand, foley is the covering of an action with sounds that are visually justifiable, although they may not naturally belong there. Nevertheless, what links an acousmatic composer to a foley artist is that the latter makes use of objects for their layout, for a sonic construction that matches visually what we expect to hear, rather than the concrete visual matter. The argument is that every foley artist is an acousmatic composer.
To this end, the project is based on the concepts of sound-motif, sound-prop and sound-actors, in order to propose a dramaturgic practice specific to sound terms.

 

Acousmatic Foley started with the kind support of Gulbenkian Foundation (2014-15) and it is currently my PhD project at The School of Music, under the Parry Williams scholarship, in The University of Bangor (Uk).

 

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