The Auditory Setting

Environmental Sounds in Film and Media Arts

By: Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

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Hardcover | 13 April 2021

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208 Pages

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The Auditory Setting introduces and investigates how narrative and a sense of place are constructed in film and media arts through the reproduction and mediation of site-specific environmental sounds, or 'ambience'. Although this sonic backdrop acts as the acoustically mediated space where a story or event can take place, there has been little academic study of sound's undervalued role in cinematic setting and production. Drawing on theories of narrative, diegesis, mimesis and presence, and following a varied number of relevant audio-visual works, this book is a ground-breaking exploration of human agency in mediating environmental sounds and the nature of the sonic experience in the Anthropocene.

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The Auditory Setting brings a personalised, post-colonial perspective to the rapidly expanding field of audio for moving image and its relationship to the site. Written with the sensibility of a sound artist, this book asks incisive questions of our evolving digital sonosphere.--David Toop, musician, author, Professor of Audio Culture and Improvisation at London College of Communication

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