57 min
Episode 13: “Markers” Speak Through the Essay Film SOUNDPROOF
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- Performing Arts
Cinesthesia 13 Original Broadcast April 18, 2024 Radio Playlist 1. Drones Over Dufferin / Rosy Fingered Dawn (from: Aural Obscura Vol. 1) 2. Ambulet / convenience (from: delayedGREEN) 3. Oliver Patrice Weder / RS (from: The Shoe Factory) 4. Drones Over Dufferin / Reprieve (from: Aural Obscura Vol. 1) 5. Oliver Patrice Weder / Golden Light (from: The Shoe Factory) 6. Drones Over Dufferin / Exposition (from: Aural Obscura Vol. 1) 7. Oliver Patrice Weder / Into Pieces (from: The Shoe Factory) 8. Drones Over Dufferin / Confrontation (from: Aural Obscura Vol. 1) 9. William Tyler / Arrival (from: Music From First Cow) 10. Drones Over Dufferin / Resolution (from: Aural Obscura Vol. 1) 11. William Tyler / A Closing (from: Music From First Cow) 12. Stephanie Sunata on making personal films. (from: https://youtu.be/7KHTPE-Uqus?si=5msRaNr7xBXTjhmw) with Laurent Petitgand / Engel (film: Faraway, So Close!) 13. William Tyler / An Opening (from: Music From First Cow) 14. Drones Over Dufferin / Memento Mori (from: Aural Obscura Vol. 1) 15. Ambulet / the birth (from: delayedGREEN)
Engagements with the essay film have utilized the caméra-stylo as metaphor for a film form that articulates intelligence and an individual point of view, typically accomplished through voice-over.” The concept of the Caméra-Stylo reminds me of the line in Birthmark (2018) that was used in the trailer. “I’m using the camera as a flashlight.” Instead of a pen, it’s a Caméra-Lamp-de-Poche or a Caméra-Flash. Used to to illuminate the dark parts of my inner basement, the making of Birthmark, revealed a belief that had to be excavated and destroyed. “Vococentrism is [Michel] Chion’s term for the cinematic soundtrack’s prioritization of the human voice over sound effects and music—their soundtracks are dominated and arranged around the human voice…[and] the very rhetoric of film, its framework, is constructed by the logic and nature of the voiceover.”
Read more: https://laalfonso.substack.com
Drones Over Dufferin https://dronesoverdufferin.bandcamp.com/album/aural-obscura-vol-i / https://dronesoverdufferin.bandcamp.com/album/aural-obscura-vol-ii
Oliver Patrice Weder https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-shoe-factory
You’re listening to Cinesthesia, produced live in the studio at Trent Radio 92.7 CFFF FM in beautiful (Nogojiwanong) Peterborough, Ontario, every Thursday at 5 PM. It’s also a podcast on SoundProof, creative nonfiction for audio. I’m your producer and host, LA Alfonso. In this audio program, film theory meets film music.
Cinesthesia 13 Original Broadcast April 18, 2024 Radio Playlist 1. Drones Over Dufferin / Rosy Fingered Dawn (from: Aural Obscura Vol. 1) 2. Ambulet / convenience (from: delayedGREEN) 3. Oliver Patrice Weder / RS (from: The Shoe Factory) 4. Drones Over Dufferin / Reprieve (from: Aural Obscura Vol. 1) 5. Oliver Patrice Weder / Golden Light (from: The Shoe Factory) 6. Drones Over Dufferin / Exposition (from: Aural Obscura Vol. 1) 7. Oliver Patrice Weder / Into Pieces (from: The Shoe Factory) 8. Drones Over Dufferin / Confrontation (from: Aural Obscura Vol. 1) 9. William Tyler / Arrival (from: Music From First Cow) 10. Drones Over Dufferin / Resolution (from: Aural Obscura Vol. 1) 11. William Tyler / A Closing (from: Music From First Cow) 12. Stephanie Sunata on making personal films. (from: https://youtu.be/7KHTPE-Uqus?si=5msRaNr7xBXTjhmw) with Laurent Petitgand / Engel (film: Faraway, So Close!) 13. William Tyler / An Opening (from: Music From First Cow) 14. Drones Over Dufferin / Memento Mori (from: Aural Obscura Vol. 1) 15. Ambulet / the birth (from: delayedGREEN)
Engagements with the essay film have utilized the caméra-stylo as metaphor for a film form that articulates intelligence and an individual point of view, typically accomplished through voice-over.” The concept of the Caméra-Stylo reminds me of the line in Birthmark (2018) that was used in the trailer. “I’m using the camera as a flashlight.” Instead of a pen, it’s a Caméra-Lamp-de-Poche or a Caméra-Flash. Used to to illuminate the dark parts of my inner basement, the making of Birthmark, revealed a belief that had to be excavated and destroyed. “Vococentrism is [Michel] Chion’s term for the cinematic soundtrack’s prioritization of the human voice over sound effects and music—their soundtracks are dominated and arranged around the human voice…[and] the very rhetoric of film, its framework, is constructed by the logic and nature of the voiceover.”
Read more: https://laalfonso.substack.com
Drones Over Dufferin https://dronesoverdufferin.bandcamp.com/album/aural-obscura-vol-i / https://dronesoverdufferin.bandcamp.com/album/aural-obscura-vol-ii
Oliver Patrice Weder https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-shoe-factory
You’re listening to Cinesthesia, produced live in the studio at Trent Radio 92.7 CFFF FM in beautiful (Nogojiwanong) Peterborough, Ontario, every Thursday at 5 PM. It’s also a podcast on SoundProof, creative nonfiction for audio. I’m your producer and host, LA Alfonso. In this audio program, film theory meets film music.
57 min