On music and film (1)
What kind of ‘thing’ is music? To what extent do we hear music as sound, as something with a source and a cause? And how do we explain the presence of music in cinema?
00:00 Intro
00:37 Some things are more thingish than others
03:05 The three-dimensionality of sound
04:36 The acousmatic experience
07:55 Is music acousmatic by nature?
15:23 Where does that music come from?
Music fragments:
06:24 L. Muns, Le chien acousmatique: petit essai de musique concrète.
08:35 F. Schubert, Sonata in E-flat Major D568 (piano*).
12:36 L. van Beethoven, Sonata in C-sharp Minor op. 27 nr. 2 (Mondschein) (sinus tones/piano*).
17:32 C. Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande. C. Abbado, Wiener Philharmoniker. DGG 4353442.
20:34 Casablanca (film). Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Dooley Wilson, Max Steiner. Warner Brothers 1943.
*Lodewijk Muns, piano
Quoted text:
R. Scruton, The Aesthetics of Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997
Further references in:
L. Muns, The Acousmatic Experience. Lodewijk Muns (blog). 19 November 2020.
L. Muns, The Archaic Ear. Lodewijk Muns (blog). 9 November 2020.
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