The Auditory Setting introduces and investigates how narrative and a sense of place are constructed in film and media arts through the reproduction and mediation of site-specific environmental sounds, or 'ambience'. Although this sonic backdrop acts as the acoustically mediated space where a story or event can take place, there has been little academic study of sound's undervalued role in cinematic setting and production. Drawing on theories of narrative, diegesis, mimesis and presence, and following a varied number of relevant audio-visual works, this book is a ground-breaking exploration of human agency in mediating environmental sounds and the nature of the sonic experience in the Anthropocene.
Author(s): Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
Series: (Music and the Moving Image)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 208
Tags: Media Studies, Film Studies, Sound Studies
Title page
Copyright
Contents
FIGURES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PART 1 INTRODUCTION
1 THE FIRST SOUND AND THE CURIOSITY
2 THE AUDITORY CONTEXT AND SIGNIFICATION
3 KEY CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS
4 APPROACH AND METHOD
PART 2 SONIC TRAJECTORIES
5 MONAURAL SOUNDTRACKS AND RECORDING (SONIC) REALITY
6 STEREO SOUND AND THE EXPANDED SPACE
7 DIGITAL SURROUND SOUND AND THE MIMETIC SITE
PART 3 ON LOCATION AND OTHER STORIES
8 LAND, FIELD, MEADOW
9 FOREST, JUNGLE
10 VILLAGE, RURAL ENVIRONMENT
11 INDOORS
12 RIVERBANK, BEACH, ISLAND
13 STREET, PUBLIC SQUARES, URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD
14 PUBLIC TRANSPORT
15 AIRPORT
16 UNDERWATER, OUTER SPACE
PART 4 CRITICAL LISTENING
17 MAPPING THE AESTHETIC CHOICES IN SOUND PRODUCTION
18 AUDITORY PRESENCE AND BETTER PRACTICE
19 THE GOD OF SMALL SOUNDS
20 EMERGING TRENDS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
WORKS/MEDIA CITED
INDEX
