Listening to film – sonology 24/25
- Foley and Montage
- ‘montage of attractions’; that is, keeping the interest throughout the scene through ‘a sensual or psychological impact, experimentally regulated (…) to produce (…) certain emotional shocks (…) [and] ideological conclusion[s]. (Eisenstein and Gerould, 1974: 78). •
- Dziga Vertov:
- From the Rumor of a Cascade and From the Rumor of a Sawmill (1916).
- “I had the original idea (…) to enlarge our ability to organise sound; to listen not only to singing or violins – the usual repertoire of gramophone disks – but also to transcend the limits of ordinary music” (in Kahn 1999: 140).
- “it will not be through opera or theatre representations that we will prepare. We will be intensely ready to offer proletarians from all countries the possibility of seeing and hearing the whole of the world in an organised manner. Of being mutually seen, heard and understood” (Vertov 1925: 5).
- The Man With The Movie Camera (1929).
- Enthusiasm, The Symphony of the Donbass (1931).
- “every sound initiates an event” – Rick Altman, Sound Theory Sound Practice (1992)