An eye for music : popular music and the audiovisual surreal / John Richardson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson, John, 1964-

Series:

Oxford music/media series

The Oxford music/media series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Motion picture music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Motion picture music.

Surrealism and music.

Physical Description:

xi, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Summary:

The music we hear is always inhabited by voices of previous performances. Because listening is now so often accompanied by moving images, this process is more complex than ever. Music videos, television and film music, interactive video games, and social media are now part of the contemporary listening experience. In An Eye for Music, author John Richardson navigates key areas of current thought - from music theory to film theory to cultural theory - to explore what it means that the experience of music is now cinematic, spatial, and visual as much as it is auditory. Richardson maps out the terrain of recent audiovisual production over a wide array of styles and practices, and sketches out a set of common structures that inform how we experience sound and vision. Whether examining Philip Glass or The Gorillaz, Richard Linklater's Waking Life or Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind, Richardson's arguments are both fascinating and provocative.

Contents:

Introduction

Navigating the neosurreal : background and premises

Neosurrealist tendencies in recent films

Neosurrealist metamusicals, flow and camp aesthetics

In tandem with the random : loose synchronisation and remediation in Philip Glass's

La Belle et la Bête and The dark side of Oz

The surrealism of the virtual band in the digital age : Gorillaz' "Clint Eastwood" and "Feel good inc."

Back to the garden? Performing the disaffected acoustic imaginary in the digital age

Concluding thoughts : all that is solid melts into air?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-310) and index.

ISBN:

9780195367362

0195367367

9780195367379

0195367375

OCLC:

695560190