Tag Archives: Soundtrack

Soundscapes in Maastricht

by michaelc Posted on 6 April 2012

Maastricht provided a suitably quiet setting for an international workshop on ‘Soundscapes of the urban past’, which covered the behaviour of audition across different forms — radio, film, theatre, plus new audio phenomena like car stereos and audio museum guides … Continue reading →

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Soundtrack thoughts

by michaelc Posted on 30 September 2009

I’ve recently caught up with Charles O’Brien’s splendid, paradigm-shifting book, Cinema’s Conversion to Sound, subtitled Technology and Film Style in France and the US. Briefly, O’Brien combines thorough research into primary sources and empirical methods of analysing film style to critique … Continue reading →

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