Music, Sound and Multimedia: From the Live to the Virtual (Music and the Moving Image)

225 Pages·2008·0.7 MB·English

by  Jamie Sexton

MUSIC & THE MOVING IMAGE SERIES This new series aims to explore the area of ‘screen music’.
Series Editor: Kevin Donnelly Volume topics include: multimedia music, music and television,
Hollywood flm music, and the music of Bollywood cinema.
MUSIC SOUND AND MULTIMEDIA
Edited by Jamie Sexton
Music and other sound effects have been central to a
whole host of media forms throughout the twentieth
century, either as background, accompaniment, or main
driving force. Such interactions will continue to mutate
in new directions, with the widespread growth of digital
technologies. Despite the expansion of research into the
use of music and sound in flm, the investigation of sonic
interactions with other media forms has been a largely
under-researched area. Music, Sound and Multimedia
provides a unique study of how music and other sounds
play a central part in our understandings and uses of
a variety of communications media. It focuses on four
areas of sound and music within broader multimedia
forms – music videos, video game music, performance
and presentation, and production and consumption
– and addresses the centrality of such aural concerns
within our everyday experiences. Charting historical
developments, mapping contemporary patterns, and
speculating on future possibilities, this book is essential
for courses on sound and media within media and
communications studies, cultural studies and popular
music studies.
Key features:
• Charts a number of key developments in music and
multimedia interactions MUSIC, SOUND and MULTIMEDIA
• Provides both historical overviews and theoretical From the Live to the Virtual
analyses
• Features a number of in-depth, case studies of
important issues.
Edited by
Jamie Sexton is a lecturer at the Department of Theatre,
Jamie Sexton
Film and Television, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has
published in the areas of flm and sound, alternative British flm
culture, and television experimentation.
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Cover image: The Residents in Concert, ca. 1999. © Rune Hellestad/Corbis
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MUSIC, SOUND and MULTIMEDIA Jamie Sexton Edinburgh
MUSIC, SOUND AND MULTIMEDIA
Music and the Moving Image
Series Editor
Kevin Donnelly
Titles in the series include:
Film’s Musical Moments
by Ian Conrich and Estella Tincknell (eds)
Music and the Moving Image: A Reader
by Kevin Donnelly (ed.)
Music, Sound and Multimedia
by Jamie Sexton (ed.)
Music Video and the Politics of Representation
by Diane Railton and Paul Watson
MUSIC, SOUND AND MULTIMEDIA
From the Live to the Virtual
Edited by
Jamie Sexton
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
List of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
SECTION ONE: FANDOM AND MUSIC VIDEOS
1. Reframing Fan Videos 17
Angelina I. Karpovich
2. Case Study: Anime Music Videos 29
Dana Milstein
SECTION TWO: VIDEO-GAME MUSIC
3. Music in Video games 51
Rod Munday
4. Case Study: Film Music vs. Video-Game Music: The Case
of Silent Hill 68
Zach Whalen
SECTION THREE: PERFORMANCE AND PRESENTATION
5. Reflections on Sound Art 85
Jamie Sexton
MUSIC, SOUND AND MULTIMEDIA
6. Pop Music, Multimedia and Live Performance 105
Jem Kelly
7. Case Study: Film Sound, Acoustic Ecology and
Performance in Electroacoustic Music 121
Randolph Jordan
SECTION FOUR: PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
8. Sound and Music in Website Design 145
Lee Tsang
9. Music Media in Young People’s Everyday Lives 172
Dan Laughey
10. Case Study: The Development of the Apple iPod 188
Kieran Kelly
Index 201
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank: Kevin Donnelly for encouraging me to edit this volume
and for advising on certain issues along the way; Sarah Edwards for a lot of
good advice and for being a helpful editor; Kay Dickinson for suggesting that
I should edit this volume; and Kate Egan for being generally supportive during
the process of editing and writing.
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure 1 Image of Asuka Langley 37
Figure 2 Participants using magnetic headphones in one of
Christina Kubitsch’s Electrical Walks – Magnetic
Forest, Kyoto, 1991 92
Figure 3 Relationship between complexity/familiarity and
preference 150
Figure 4 Estell et al.’s Velocity (2006) from London Sinfonietta’s
sub-website ‘Andreissen-online’ 163
Figure 5 Stills from ‘3d music’ by Braunarts and London
Sinfonietta (2007) 164
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Randolph Jordan holds an MA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim
School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and is cur-
rently a doctoral candidate in Concordia’s Interdisciplinary PhD Humanities
programme. His research focuses on the intersections between film sound
theory, electroacoustic music and acoustic ecology. His dissertation examines
films which express ecological concern through creative approaches to the rela-
tionship between sound and image on screen. For more information, visit
www.randolphjordan.com.
Angelina I. Karpovich is a lecturer in multimedia technology and design at
Brunel University. Her research concerns media fandom, the social significance
of media texts, and the varying uses of media technologies by professionals and
non-professionals.
Jem Kelly is senior lecturer and research coordinator in the Department of
Performing Arts, University of Chichester. Jem’s academic writing includes
Auditory Space: Emergent Sounds and Affective Practices in Steve Reich and
Beryl Korot’s Three Tales (Intellect 2005), and forthcoming chapters in
Devising with Technology (Routledge), Telematic and Tactile: Devising
Practices of Station House Opera (Intellect) and They Did It My Way:
Intermediality and Liveness in Sinatra Live!, The Musical (CTR). Jem also com-
poses music for theatre and television, producing albums with the Lotus Eaters
and the Wild Swans.
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