Class session 7

Musique Concrète / Silence / Cinema Verité

Video Lecture 12: On the intensity of experience — Cage, Schaeffer, Bazin, Van Sant

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Reading: Chion, Audio-vision (excerpt) / Schafer, The Tuning of the World (Ch. 9) / Download Chion, Audio-vision (excerpt) / Schafer, The Tuning of the World (Ch. 9) /

The Concept of „Sound Object“ (objet sonore) by Pierre Schaeffer Links to an external site.

Play media comment. Pierre Schaeffer - etude aux chemins de fer

Play media comment.Steve Reich - Come Out (Original Ver.).mp3

Speech to song demonstration Links to an external site.

Play media comment.

Huck Hodge - Pools of shadow from an older sky, IV. In lost Venetian air (2011)

Hildegard Westerkamp - Türen der Wahrnehmungen (Doors of Perception) (1989) Part I

Play media comment.Hildegard Westerkamp - Türen der Wahrnehmungen (Doors of Perception) (1989) Part II

Play media comment.Francis White - Walk Through resonant Landscape No. 2 (1992)

Bazin and the Phenomenology of Film

Read: Divining the real: the leaps of faith in André Bazin’s film criticism Links to an external site.

Watch: Elephant (Google Drive link) Links to an external site.

(MPAA rating: R for disturbing violent content, language, brief sexuality and drug use - all involving teens)

Elephant on TV Tropes Links to an external site.

Read: Jordan, The Ecology of Listening while Looking (optional) Download Read: Jordan, The Ecology of Listening while Looking (optional)

Terminology:  Deep Focus Links to an external site. | Cinema Verité Links to an external site.| Long Take Links to an external site.