Michel Chion describes the Acousmetre as a kind of voice-character specific to
cinema that derives mysterious powers from being heard and not seen. The
disembodied voice seems to come from everywhere and therefore to have no clearly
defined limits to its power.
The effect of Acousmetre functions by delaying the fusion of sound and image,
supplying a sound while withholding its visual source until the end of a film.
Only then, when the audience has used its imagination to the fullest, as in a
radio play, is the real identity of the source revealed, almost always with an
accompanying loss of imagined power.
Invisible to My Earis a radio work by DJ Puddle about moments of cinematic
silence. How does silence function as a dramaturgical element when stripped of
visual context? Using citations from films ranging fromThe Wizard of Oz(1939),
Psycho(1960),andThe Conversation(1974), the piece inve...
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