Sound, Space and Symmetry
Have you ever been in a concert where the pieces are played twice? Have you ever been in a museum which galleries have been turned into performance stages? Have...
Category: music
Austin Samba School : Learning with The Acadêmicos da Ópera
I am back to school. Two weeks ago I started to participate in the Austin Samba School weekly meetings at a gymnasium located in the campus of a former Texas In...
Cinematic Language and Aural Imaginaries
Since the end of the 1980s, exploring the aural dimension of cinematic language has opened a new field of film scholarship. One of the leading figures in this a...
Melodrama, Cinema, and the Mechanization of Emotions
In order to understand the conventions of film music, either from the silent or the sound era (including the silent-to-sound transitional period of 1926-1936), ...
Peelander Z : Performing Comic Action Punk in the 21st Century
“We are not Japanese, we are not Americans, we are not human beings, we came from planet Peelander” yelled Kengo Hioki at the terrace of the Elysium...
The Compilation Score of The Children of Men(2006)
Although the practice of building a film music score by selecting a number of pre-recorded songs has been well established since the 1970s, this method of “comp...
After SXSW 2012
The last 10 days have been full of cultural activities here in Austin due to the annual SXSW conference/festival. The town-city of Austin transforms, for few da...