Between the ears : acoustiographic representations of character interiority
| dc.contributor.advisor | Buhler, James, 1964- | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Neumeyer, David | en |
| dc.creator | Newton, Alex Michael | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-08-05T16:46:54Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2011-08-05T16:46:54Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-05 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2011 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2011-08-05T16:47:03Z | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This essay aims to explore acoustiographies of the interior and interpret the cultural impressions that they perpetuate. While I do consider the conventional iconographies of headphones and full-body suits (e.g., spacesuits) that filmmakers employ as tools to focalize a character’s internal subjectivity, acoustiographies often supersede or occur in lieu of such visual symbols. While the acoustiography of “leakage” symbolizes the disparity between the self-perception of the self and the social perception of the self, that of “head sound” aims at placing the audience inside the head of a given character by positioning the point of audition as if it were emanating from the character’s head. Leakage is a diegetic sound that is somewhat obscured or filtered by some barrier blocking the sound’s full frequency emission, whereas sound effects or music seemingly sounding from inside a character’s head, as for example through headphones, represent head sound. These acoustiographies of leakage and head sound play a crucial role in the filmic expression of a character’s interiority, which they accomplish through their ability to physically represent interior space, but also figuratively represent a character’s subjectivity. | en |
| dc.description.department | Music | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.slug | 2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3225 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3225 | en |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.subject | Interiority | en |
| dc.subject | Acoustiography | en |
| dc.subject | Film music | en |
| dc.subject | Headphones | en |
| dc.subject | Music theory | en |
| dc.subject | Motion pictures and music | en |
| dc.subject | Film soundtracks | en |
| dc.title | Between the ears : acoustiographic representations of character interiority | en |
| dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.department | Music | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Music | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Texas at Austin | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Music | en |