Art of Sound: Creativity in Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music

Bringing together a diverse group of world leading professionals across Post-Production Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music, Art of Sound explores the creative principles that underpin how sonic practitioners  act to compose, tell stories, make us feel, and communicate via sound.  Revealing new understandings through analysis of interdisciplinary  exchanges and interviews, this book investigates questions of  aesthetics, perception, and interpretation, unveiling opportunities for a  greater appreciation of the artistry in sound practice which underpins  both experimental electronic music and the world’s leading film and  television productions.

It argues that we can better  understand and appreciate the creative act if we regard it as a  constantly unfolding process of inspiration, material action, and  reflection. In contrast to traditional notions, which imagine outputs as  developed to reflect a preconceived creative vision, our approach  recognises that the output is always emerging as the practitioner flows  with their materials in search of their solution, constantly negotiating  the rich networks of potential. This enables us to better celebrate the  reality of the creative process, de-centring technologies and universal  rules, and potentially opening up the ways in which we think about  sonic practices to embrace more diverse ideas and approaches.

Art  of Sound provides insight into the latest developments and approaches  to sound and image practice for composers, filmmakers, directors,  scholars, producers, sound designers, sound editors, sound mixers, and  students who are interested in understanding the creative potential of  sound.