Sheer coincidence: I have that name written down after having heard something by him at ubu.
Spooked. On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 1:14 PM Albert Alcoz <albertal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Chris and Bernard, > I just wanted to add one reference to this topic. It concerns the initial > work of the American composer Tod Dockstader > <https://soundartarchive.net/ARTISTS-details.php?recordID=133>. He > created the sound design for animations as *Mr. Magoo* and *Gerald Mc > Boing* at the beginning of his career. I don't know if there's an article > about it though. I'd like to mention that John Stehura used his music (the > theme "Tango" <https://dockstader.bandcamp.com/track/quatermass-tango> > from the *Quatermass* LP) for the marvelous film *Cibernetik 5.3*. > Best, > Albert > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 7:04 PM Bernard Roddy <roddy...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Christopher: >> >> Thank you for initiating this discussion topic. Albert Alcoz has provided >> a document that is available without download. I am looking past the >> introduction of Oskar Fischinger, where Rudolph Pfenninger's research is >> taken up: "Eschewing aesthetic discourse entirely, Pfenninger focused on >> the technological development of a new form of acoustic writing [. . . ]." >> This kind of essay is really part of a history of technology. The question, >> however, seems to ask how sound is being thought within contemporary >> practice. That's going to be a little trickier to come up with, >> particularly if you are searching in the spirit of Fischinger (in other >> words, not looking at cartoons). For me this kind of interest led me to >> sound poetics as one can sample at ubu.com, and to the artistic >> exploration of sound that even resists being identified with music. >> Particularly if you are attracted to the idea of scoring a soundtrack, >> Pierre Schaeffer's In Search of a Concrete Music is pretty cool. It's as if >> the whole approach to experiment in film now takes up the use of pots and >> pans in order to unfold a unique aural experience that is neither verbal >> nor musical. >> >> Of course "sound design' is already a term from a rather more mainstream >> current of academic to professional study. >> >> Bernie >> >> - - - - - >> >> *On Oct 14, 2020, at 10:23 AM, Chris G <spydir at gmail.com >> <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks>> wrote: >> *>>* >> *>* Hi all, >> *>>* I am looking for titles of literature on sound design in animation >> whether >> *>* they're articles, essays or books. It would be helpful if they were >> *>* accessible in the free world or usual academic libraries' digital >> *>* collections. >> *>>* Best, >> *>* Christopher* >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> > > > -- > http://albertalcoz.com/ <http://www.albertalcoz.com/> > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >
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