A few months ago I was watching the movie “Triple Frontier,” and as its star-studded cast shot their way through the Colombian jungle, I was getting increasingly frustrated at my constant increasing and decreasing of the volume. I would turn it up to hear the actors mumble in Spanish to then immediately turn it back… Continue reading Why are Christopher Nolan films so hard to hear?
Author: Rachelle Hernandez
Ring a Bird: Birdsong in a Maryland Pay Phone
Somewhere in Maryland there is a phone booth which rather than accepting phone calls, it shares bird calls. This is a project from composer, audio producer, and violinist David Schulman who originally submitted it as part of a contest on interactive public art projects. The idea first came from Schulman having noticed non working pay… Continue reading Ring a Bird: Birdsong in a Maryland Pay Phone
Sound and Film
Although movies originally did not have any sound, many silent films were accompanied by a musician or a live band or orchestra, so music and sound were always important in film. The main reason why there was no sound accompanying these films was due to the technical challenges revolving around sound in film. The first… Continue reading Sound and Film
StoryCorps: Rebuilding a Community and Remembering Joseph
For this assignment I ended up listening to “He Inherited The Very Same Name” and “18 Years After Katrina, A Grocer Rebuilds His Community One Shop at a Time.” Both are from within the last year and are less than ten minutes long, with the first being around three minutes and the second being about… Continue reading StoryCorps: Rebuilding a Community and Remembering Joseph