Making History in the City of Austin: The Celebration of the First Hip Hop Festival
“If you love your city, make some fucking noise!” said Austin Martin at the stage of Red7, surrounded by a crew of 7 local MCs during the performanc...
Category: sound
Mexico City as a Sensorial Kaleidoscope: Exploring Movable Urban Layers
More than eleven years took me to come back to Mexico City, Distrito Federal (DF). The return has surprised me as much as it happened the first time I landed in...
The Sound of Chip Tunes in ATX
The blasting sound of 8-bit sound waves is electrifying. Sounds crafted in retro waveform generators such as the one of the Comodore 64 and the Gameboy, can be ...
Music and Humor : The Cartoon Music Aesthetic of Carl Stalling
Although the power of music to elicit emotions has been widely recognized, the capacity of music to produce laugher has been relatively unexplored. First of all...
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...
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...
The Sensorial in Early Tim Burton’s Feature Films
Grotesque, Gothic, and bizarre, are some of the adjectives that commonly describe the films directed by Tim Burton. Although their stories are often simple, Bur...