Cinematic Soundscapes

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T. O. 34, dir. Vittorio Carpigano, music by Raffaele Gervasio, 1942 (screenshot)

One commonly speaks of “soundscape” to indicate a set of sounds connected to a particular environment. But does a “cinematic soundscape” exist? In other words: are there genuinely cinematic strategies to represent the sound of a territory, an environment, a geographical space? What is the link between music, the film of which the latter is part, and the space represented therein?
This fascinating knot of questions was the topic of the conference “Mapping spaces, sounding places. Geographies of sounds in audiovisual media “, hosted by the University of Pavia’s Department of Musicology, located in Cremona, from 19 to 22 March 2019.

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Naum Kleiman in Bologna

Naum Kleiman at “Il Cinema Ritrovato” (Bologna, June 26, 2017): The most authoritative Eisenstein scholar, conversating with Bernard Eisenschitz on “cubist” montage and “mise en cadre” in Bronenosets Potemkin (1925).