Ciudad y Arquitectura a la escucha: El sonido indiscreto como argumento cinematográfico

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.