City, Architecture, and Listening(in)

Revelatory Audio as a Film Storyline

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30827/sobre.v8i.23679

Keywords:

arquitectura, sonido indiscreto, interpretación, tecnología, significado

Abstract

Analogous to the trajectory of visual culture, moments of revelatory audio have long been used as storylines in many major films, underlining the importance of listening in to information conveyed via audio when the interpretation of that information is a fundamental component of the unfolding action. The scholarship has examined in some depth the limitations of listening and the physical/psychological principles behind it, in terms of the human being’s capacity to capture information and filter-in only what is relevant and how the act of listening has influenced different cinematographic storylines. The architectural and urban environment in which the revelatory audio is framed, together with the technology used, shows a clear relationship to the unfolding action and shapes the appearance of cinematographic storytelling. Four types of listening-context are identified as possible narrative structures where revelatory audio manifests itself: the detective context, the political context, the psychoanalytical context, and the privileged-insight context.

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Author Biographies

  • Javier Boned Purkiss, University of Malaga

    Phd (Polytechnic University of Madrid, 2000). Principal investigator of the Research Group "Communication, Technology and Architecture" (University of Málaga). He has taught several courses on cinema, music and architecture. His lines of research focus on architecture as a multidisciplinary fact, with communications at international congresses, as well as book chapters and articles on film-architecture relations and the city as a sound event. Honorable Mentions at the 2005 and 2011 Málaga Architecture Awards and First Prize in 2009. Member of San Telmo Fine Arts Academy since May 2014.

  • Alberto E. Garcia-Moreno, University of Malaga

    Architect (University of Granada), PhD and professor of Architectural Composition at the University of Malaga. He has leadered and participated in several researching projects, such as "Filmed Malaga: methodology for a new concept of heritage", some of them recognized with research awards such as the XIII BEAU (2016), Malaga Research Awards (2015), Research Award in Spanish cinema (2015) or finalist in the XIII BEAU (2016, disclosure) with an investigation on Architecture and Cinema. He has been a visiting researcher at the universities of Seville, Coimbra, Vienna or Florence.

  • María José Márquez-Ballesteros, University of Malaga

    Architect (University of Granada), PhD and professor of Urbanism at the University of Malaga. She is a member of the Habitat Tourism and Territory Research Institute (UMA-UPC) with research on neighborhood revitalization and regeneration, energy and sustainable mobility. He has received several research awards: XIII BEAU, Málaga Research Award, Finalist Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis on City, Architecture and Construction Sciences (2014) and Finalist in XIII BEAU (2016, disclosure) with an investigation on Architecture and Cinema. She has been a principal investigator with a postdoctoral fellowship co-financed by the AndalucíaTech Campus in Endesa (ENEL group), to develop her work in the sustainability division.

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Published

2022-07-03

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How to Cite

“City, Architecture, and Listening(in): Revelatory Audio as a Film Storyline” (2022) SOBRE, 8, pp. 22–30. doi:10.30827/sobre.v8i.23679.