Robert Robertson: Eisenstein on the Audiovisual: The Montage of Music, Image and Sound in Cinema (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · audiovisual, cinema, film, montage, music, sound recording
“The pioneering film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein is known for the unequalled impact his handful of films have had on the development of cinema. Less is known about his remarkable and extensive writings, which present a continent of ideas about film. Here Robert Robertson explores a significant area of Eisenstein’s thought: his ideas about the audiovisual in cinema, which are more pertinent today than ever before with the advent of digital technology – music and sound now act as independent variables combined with the visual medium to produce a truly audiovisual result. Eisenstein explored in his writings this complex exciting subject with more depth and originality than any other practitioner. Eisenstein on the Audiovisual is essential reading for anyone who deals with the audiovisual in cinema and related audiovisual forms, including theatre, opera, dance and multimedia.”
Publisher I. B. Tauris, 2009
Volume 5 of International library of cultural studies
ISBN 1845118391, 9781845118396
304 pages
PDF (updated on 2017-2-24)
Comments (2)Zehar, 53-57 (2004-2006) [English/Spanish/Basque]
Filed under magazine | Tags: · archive, art, contemporary art, copyright, creative commons, listening, music, sound recording
“Zehar is a magazine of art and contemporary culture. Zehar uses a transitory denomination (through) to define its purpose as a receptive intermediary between the artistic community and society at large.The magazine’s aim is to maintain a critical reflective spirit, inspired by the conviction of the need for consolidated stable bases, which enrich the context and a plural environment. Zehar is four monthly. In order to encourage the variety of ideas, we devote each issue to one theme and invite a guest editor to work on it.
The section titled Shorts presents reviews about exhibitions, events, books and films. The paper version has two editions, Basque/Spanish and English/Spanish, but the electronic edition is trilingual. Zehar is published by Arteleku, a public art centre under the auspices of the Culture Department of the Regional Government of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain.”
Perspectives on Listening
Zehar 53, 2004
Decoys and Disruptions
Zehar 55, 2005
Archive Fever
Zehar 56, 2005
Transition
Zehar 57, November 2006
Mattin, Anthony Iles (eds.): Noise & Capitalism (2009) [English, Catalan]
Filed under book | Tags: · attention economy, capitalism, music, noise, sound recording
“This book is a tool for understanding the situation we are living through, the way our practices and our subjectivities are determined by capitalism. It explores contemporary alienation in order to discover whether the practices of improvisation and noise contain or can produce emancipatory moments and how these practices point towards social relations which can extend these moments.
If the conditions in which we produce our music affects our playing then let’s try to feel through them, understand them as much as possible and, then, change these conditions.
If our senses are appropriated by capitalism and put to work in an ‘attention economy’, let’s, then, reappropriate our senses, our capacity to feel, our receptive powers; let’s start the war at the membrane!
Alienated language is noise, but noise contains possibilities that may, who knows, be more affective than discursive, more enigmatic than dogmatic.
Noise and improvisation are practices of risk, a ‘going fragile’. Yet these risks imply a social responsibility that could take us beyond ‘phoney freedom’ and into unities of differing.
We find ourselves poised between vicariously florid academic criticism, overspecialised niche markets and basements full of anti-intellectual escapists. There is, afterall, ‘a Franco, Churchill, Roosevelt, inside all of us…’ yet this book is written neither by chiefs nor generals.
Here non-appointed practitioners, who are not yet disinterested, autotheorise ways of thinking through the contemporary conditions for making difficult music and opening up to the willfully perverse satisfactions of the auricular drives.
Contributors: Ray Brassier, Emma Hedditch, Matthew Hyland, Anthony Iles, Sara Kaaman, Mattin, Nina Power, Edwin Prévost, Bruce Russell, Matthieu Saladin, Howard Slater, Csaba Toth, Ben Watson.
The distribution of this book is going to be done by trading:
If you are an artist, musician, writer or engage in any creative activity, we would very much appreciate that you send a sample of your work as a form of exchange for the book. Otherwise you can write a critical response to the book and send it to Arteleku.
If you are a distributor or a label or a publisher and you want to get copies of the book for distribution, you can send single copies of different books, zines or records in exchange and Arteleku will send you copies of the book in return.
Any material sent to Arteleku will become part of Arteleku’s library and people will have free access to this material.
Post: Arteleku, Kristobaldegi 14 (o nuevo P. Ainzieta), Loiola Auzoa, 20014 Donostia – San Sebastián (Spain).
Email: arteleku at gipuzkoa dot net
Arteleku might take some time to reply and to send the books but they will do it as soon as they can.”
Publisher Arteleku Audiolab (Kritika series), and Donostia-San Sebastián (Gipuzkoa), Sep 2009
ISBN 9788479086221
191 pages
Noise & Capitalism (English, updated on 2019-9-13)
Ruido y capitalismo (Catalan, 21 MB, added on 2019-9-13)