Module 7: Sound Theory and Sound Practice
Sound Theory What we hear from the screen is not an image of the sound, but the sound itself which the sound camera has recorded and reproduced again .... there is no difference in dimension and reality between the original sound and the recoreded and reproducted sound. --- Béla Balázs The Theory of Film .... in a photgraph, the original is as present as it ever was. Sound can be perfectly copied..... the record reproduces the sound. ---- Stanley Cavell The World Viewed And it is true that in the cinema ---- as in all talking machines --- one does not hear an image of the sounds, but the sounds themselves. Even if the procedure for recording the sounds and playing them back deforms them, they are reproduced and not copied. ---- J. L. Baudry The Apparatus