Christos A. Goussios
ABSTRACT
This work attempts to highlight some specific interconnections between certain human artistic expressions and their relation with sonic environments and architectural soundscapes, especially connections with some acoustic qualities of spaces, such as the reverberation. The main focus is the effort to discover applications of these acoustic qualities, as identifying characteristics of certain spaces, in order to serve the narration in fiction films through sound design. The use of the reverberation as a story telling tool in films is highlighted. The difficulty of the human definition and expressions concerning our sonic environment is mentioned through the partial absence of a sonic vocabulary. One the first part the unintended effect and reflection of acoustic characteristics of spaces on certain human artistic and generally creative procedures is presented and part of a related research-in-progress, is introduced. The second part of this work focuses on the intentional use of acoustic characteristics on film sound in order to imitate certain spaces and furthermore underline, multiply etc feelings, psychological situations, emotional experiences and many more in audiovisual narration.
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Index Terms
- Echoes of reverb: from cave acoustics to sound design
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