More beautiful areas: Performativity and presence in the integrated soundtrack

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dc.contributor.authorMelvin, Adamen
dc.contributor.editorGreene, Lizen
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-02T13:19:05Z
dc.date.available2024-07-02T13:19:05Z
dc.date.issued2024-07-02en
dc.description.abstractIn 2019, I presented a paper at a conference in NUI Maynooth, Ireland that used Kevin Donnelly’s notion of the soundtrack as spectre as the starting point for discussing performativity and presence in the films of Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev. During the discussion that followed, Danijela Kulezic-Wilson, who was in attendance, raised several observations concerning the relevance of Donnelly’s concept to her own research exploring the integrated soundtrack. This paper essentially seeks to continue that conversation. By revisiting several examples explored in Kulezic-Wilson’s chapter on “Soundtrack’s Liminal Spaces” in Sound Design Is the New Score, alongside others including Nick Cave’s score for The Proposition (John Hillcoat, 2005) and Birdman (Alejandro Iñárritu, 2014), I explore to what extent Donnelly’s analogy can be expanded to consider instances in film where the foregrounding of tactile musical gestures and spatial placement within the audio mix results in a distinctly performative, quasi-physical sensibility that challenges the “insubstantial” status of Donnelly’s spectral presence. Drawing on a broad framework of theoretical concepts including Miguel Mera’s discussion of the haptic score and Paul Sanden’s network of liveness, this paper aims to provide a complimentary perspective to an important aspect of Danijela Kulezic-Wilson’s significant contribution to the study of film sound and music.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationMelvin, A. (2024) 'More beautiful areas: Performativity and presence in the integrated soundtrack', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 27, pp. 132–147. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.27.12en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.27.12en
dc.identifier.endpage147en
dc.identifier.issued27
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage132en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16065
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.rights© 2024, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectPerformativityen
dc.subjectPresenceen
dc.subjectLivenessen
dc.subjectSoundtracken
dc.titleMore beautiful areas: Performativity and presence in the integrated soundtracken
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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