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Behind the Sonic Veil: Considering Sound as the Mediator of Illusory Life in Variable and Screen-Based Media

Behind the Sonic Veil: Considering Sound as the Mediator of Illusory Life in Variable and Screen-Based Media

Ross Winning
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781466629615|ISBN10: 1466629614|EISBN13: 9781466629622
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2961-5.ch009
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Winning, Ross. "Behind the Sonic Veil: Considering Sound as the Mediator of Illusory Life in Variable and Screen-Based Media." Digital Media and Technologies for Virtual Artistic Spaces, edited by Dew Harrison, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 117-134. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2961-5.ch009

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Winning, R. (2013). Behind the Sonic Veil: Considering Sound as the Mediator of Illusory Life in Variable and Screen-Based Media. In D. Harrison (Ed.), Digital Media and Technologies for Virtual Artistic Spaces (pp. 117-134). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2961-5.ch009

Chicago

Winning, Ross. "Behind the Sonic Veil: Considering Sound as the Mediator of Illusory Life in Variable and Screen-Based Media." In Digital Media and Technologies for Virtual Artistic Spaces, edited by Dew Harrison, 117-134. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2961-5.ch009

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Abstract

Drawing firstly on animation, this chapter will consider how applications of sound may demand new conceptual frameworks for animated work to develop. Making reference to audio-visual sound theory, the acousmatic and cinematic histories, the discussion surveys aspects of animation sound, and suggests the potential for exposing the sonic elements of the form to evaluation using means beyond current film-sound concepts. The application of recorded sound and the role it performs in the re-creation of synthetic life in new animated situations brings unconsidered possibilities for sound-image concepts. How sound functions and how it combines with an image on screen, in order to create a listening involvement in animation, is central to this consideration. Nevertheless, as the form transgresses, it is evolving from the structured sound space of the traditional screen; new spaces may present different challenges that motivate different sound to picture equations.

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