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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"soundtrack"”.
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Audiovisual Afterlives: The Soundtrack of Liberal Nostalgia
… of these artists through contemporary television soundtracks, which have preserved the legacy of twentieth century musicians, we can glean moments where a soundtrack of liberal nostalgia begins to form. Drawing on sound studies, gender and race theory, and postmodern media critique, “Audiovisual …
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Finding Home: Creating a Video Game Soundtrack
… I simulated the experience of creating a soundtrack for a video game by collaborating with Noelani Wood, a local artist, and consulting with Dr. Ogburn, the composition professor at Columbus State University.</p>
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Characterizing Audio Events for Video Soundtrack Analysis
… technology that could help to interpret video soundtrack data would also be applicable in a number of other scenarios, such as mobile device audio awareness, surveillance, and robotics. In this thesis we approach the problem of extracting information from these kinds of unconstrained audio …
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Mongolian Folklore Expressed through Music Technology Original Multimedia Soundtrack on Horseback
I returned to my hometown and recorded Mongolian folk music- Mongolian Long Song and Mongolian Throat Singing. I wanted to combine technology and traditional folk music and write an electronic piece based on Mongolian vocal materials. I used what I've sampled, manipulated the sounds, composed the …
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Soundtrack: the Significance of Music in the Films Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino
This thesis will examine the significance of pre-existing music in writer and director Quentin Tarantino's feature-length films Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Volume I, and Kill Bill Volume II. This examination will show that the music in these films not only plays a pivotal …
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The Integrated Soundtrack in Practice: an Electroacoustic Sensibility to Composition in Film Sound Design
This practice-led doctoral research investigates integrated approaches to filmmaking through the lens of sound design and electroacoustic composition, advancing a relational understanding of film practice in which creative processes emerge through dynamic interrelations between filmmakers, …
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The Postnational Soundtrack: Defining the Canadian Documentary Film Score Through Identity, Space, and Compositional Practice
In a 2012 National Post article, renowned Canadian documentary filmmaker and journalist Kevin McMahon compared documentary film to iconic Canadian symbols, such as the colour red, the maple leaf, and the beaver (McMahon, 2012). Indeed, documentary film holds historical and cultural significance in …
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Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Land of Confusion - a film by Jeremy Zerechak Music Composed by Joseph Miller
Land of Confusion is a feature film documenting a Pennsylvania National Guard unit's 2004 tour during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The creation of its musical score represents a major milestone in its composer's musical development. In combination with the postproduction remix, also by Joseph Miller, …
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Soundtracking American smart cinema: self-expression, identity and alienation
… a variation in its use of the diegetic soundtrack. This has allowed characters within its narratives to use the expressive qualities offered by listening and consuming music, furthering their desires to communicate with other characters and regulate their sense of self-identity. The …
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Creating a sound world for Dracula (Brorwning, 1931).
… silent and sound films. Dracula’s original soundtrack consists of only a few sonic elements: dialogue and incidental sound effects. Music is used only at the beginning and in the middle (one diegetic scene) of the film; there is no underscoring. The reasons for the ‘emptiness’ of the …
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A Sonic Arts Approach to Sound Design Practice
… music and apposite perspectives from film soundtrack studies informs the approach. Over the course of the research, a broadening practical knowledge of theoretical applications influenced the development of the sound design approach and its conceptual framework.<br/><br/>The term 'sonic …
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A Game of Musical Layers: An Investigation into the use of a Vertical Layering Soundtrack as an Integral part of the of the Information System of a Video Game
… the hypothesis that a vertical layering musical soundtrack can be used as an integral part of the information system of a video game. The concept of dynamically controlling music through multiple layers, as well as the idea that music can be used to convey information to players, are currently …
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Un Chien Andalou – An Orchestral Film Score
… factors went into my decision to compose a soundtrack for this movie. It is a well known film and it is relatively short at 22 minutes, conditions conducive to increased performance possibilities. Being silent, it allows for continuous or nearly continuous music, so this soundtrack functions …
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Audiovisual spatial congruence, and applications to 3D sound and stereoscopic video
… s-3D movie and its corresponding 3D audio soundtrack. We first present the procedure followed to obtain this joint 3D video and audio content from an existing animated s-3D movie, problems encountered, and some of the solutions employed. Second, as s-3D cinema aims at providing the …
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Exploring theatrical conventions and the application of palimpsest, polyphony, hauntology, and site-specific, through a scenographic lens
… another way to layer and structure a language or soundtrack that accompanies a site-specific intervention. By engaging with polyphony as the complexity of sound and layering phrases of voices and music to create a polyphonic soundtrack to our spaces of performances or our heritage sites as …
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A wireless sensor-based mobile music environment complied from a graphical language
… a synchronized music experience that generates a soundtrack based on the listener's movement. By synchronizing the music to the user's natural rhythms, it encourages the user to maintain a given pace for a longer period of time. I describe extensions to this example that point to a future of …
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Collaboration and Integration: A Method of Advancing Film Sound Based on The Coen Brothers' Use of Sound and Their Mode of Production. Volume 1.
… collaboration between those responsible for the soundtrack. The Coens' model serves as a way of highlighting sound's importance and as way of generating more integrated soundtracks. As such, filmmakers should build upon their mode of production; a notion supported by other professionals and …
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Collaboration and Integration: A Method of Advancing Film Sound Based on The Coen Brothers’ Use of Sound and Their Mode of Production. Volume 2.
… collaboration between those responsible for the soundtrack. The Coens' model serves as a way of highlighting sound's Importance and as way of generating more integrated soundtracks. As such, filmmakers should build upon their mode of production; a notion supported by other professionals and …
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Hit-and-Runs: A Memoir
… in these memoirs are lyrics from songs – a soundtrack for life – sharing with the audience an auditory impact of the recollection. Each of these hit-and-runs are true to experience, with changes to names only if needed to respect the privacy of those involved.</p> <p>Key words: narrative, …
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Historical Narrative in the Music of Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
… identity signaled by <em>Civilization IV</em>’s soundtrack. I argue that the music in <em>Civilization VI</em> contributes to a Eurocentric teleological progress narrative of history inherent in the structure of the game: the idea that history is a story of inevitable and positive technological …
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