Volume 4, 2003

Aug 27, 2003 | Contents Page Only, Film, Sound, Volume 04

The Sounds of Vision: Spectatorship and Aural Perception Editor, Felicity Colman 1. ‘They’re Here’: The Rhythmic Accent, the Single Beat and Rhythmic Silence – Annie Turner 2. Authenticating White Trash: The performance of country music in O...

‘They’re Here’: The Rhythmic Accent, the Single Beat and Rhythmic Silence – Annie Turner

Aug 27, 2003 | Volume 04

Abstract: This article examines the significant role of diegetic aural rhythm in cinema as a tool for structuring narrative time. It explores the ways in which diegetic aural rhythm delineates narrative time by establishing patterns of expectation and resolution for...

Authenticating White Trash: The performance of country music in O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Daniel Mudie Cunningham

Aug 27, 2003 | Film, Music, Sound, Volume 04

Abstract: This essay explores the way white trash identity is performed through country music. In particular, the focus is on the way the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen, 2001) uses a soundtrack of ‘old-timey’ country music from the 1920s and...

A System for Generating Real-Time Visual Meaning for Live Indian Drumming – Philip Davidson, Ajay Kapur, Perry Cook

Aug 27, 2003 | Volume 04

Abstract: In this essay, a system developed to generate visual meaning for live performed music is described. Specifically, this system is calibrated to respond to North Indian classical and folk drumming tradition, using custom designed digital musical interfaces,...

Believe the Hype: Hype Williams and Afrofuturist Filmmaking – Thomas F. DeFrantz

Aug 27, 2003 | Volume 04

In 1992, black film theorist Arthur Jafa imagined a “black visual intonation” that would echo prominent performative features of black vocal intonation. Jafa predicted a future of filmmaking that could reproduce “visual equivalencies of vibrato,...

“I am a heterodemon” – Keely Macarow

Aug 27, 2003 | Volume 04

I am a cock sucking Straight acting Lesbian man With ball crushing bad manners Laddish nymphomaniac politics Spunky sexist desires Of incestuous inversion and Incorrect terminology I am a Not Gay ( Blue , Jarman; 1995: 119). In offering this extract from Derek...