CINEMA OF NOISE PART 4: #31 - 40

Listening to films.

Listening

CINEMA OF NOISE #40 - September 30th 2015
+ Woman of the Dunes [1964] directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara
- fabric • skin • voice • beads • orchestral strings

"Surfaces are eroticised; rationalism and the bureaucratic order of modern life are pitted against animism and the inexorable rhythms of nature, these transformations and oppositions echoed by Takemitsu’s granular, eerie musical scores of sudden distorted shocks and attenuated, fibrous tones: music as skin tones." - David Toop (Haunted Weather, 2005)

Sound Department [IMDB]

Ichirô Katô ... sound recordist
Keiji Mori ... sound effects editor
Shigenosuke Okuyama ... sound recordist

Tôru Takemitsu ... composer

CINEMA OF NOISE #39 - September 28th 2015
+ Requiem for a Dream [2000] directed by Darren Aronofsky
- kick drum • fx • whoosh • electronic noise • telephone • door latch • fridge fx • synth

CINEMA OF NOISE #38 - September 23rd 2015
+ Three Colours: Red [1994] directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
- rain • telephone dialing • train • dialing tone • voices • sea • seagulls • water • fx

Sound Department [IMDB]

Vincent Arnardi ... foley artist
William Flageollet ... sound mixer
Sandrine Henchoz ... sound recordist
Jean-Claude Laureux ... sound editor / sound
Jean-Pierre Lelong ... foley artist
Francine Lemaitre ... sound editor
Mario Melchiorri ... foley artist
Nicolas Naegelen ... sound editor
Brigitte Taillandier ... sound recordist
Piotr Zawadzki ... sound editor

CINEMA OF NOISE #37 - September 21st 2015
+ Elephant [2003] directed by Gus Van Sant
- footsteps • movement • tones • birds • fire • glass • voices • water • insects • distant gun shots

"I think what happens with Gus’s films and other films we talked about is that you take a sound that’s a complete juxtaposition of what’s going on in the image and it forces you to listen — you have to look to the sound for the cues of what’s going on. Even if the sound doesn’t give you a specific direction, it gives you a sort of broader experience than if it was just the dialogue being repeated over and over again. I think that filmmakers are having trouble making this break. They think of film as a visual medium." - Leslie Shatz (Elephant, Sound Designer) Fipresci interview

Sound Department [IMDB]

Felix Andrew .... sound mixer
David A. Cohen .... dialogue editor (as David Cohen)
Neil Riha .... boom operator
Leslie Shatz .... sound designer
Tanya Smith .... sound assistant
Concha Solano .... sound assistant
Frank Canonica .... supervising sound recordist (uncredited)
Samuel Cohen .... post-production sound (uncredited)
Michael 'Gonzo' Gandsey .... adr recordist (uncredited)
Michael 'Gonzo' Gandsey .... sound recordist (uncredited)
Martin Schloemer .... sound recordist (uncredited)
Austin Storms .... adr recordist (uncredited)

Music composition 'Beneath the Forest Floor' written and performed by Hildegard Westerkamp

CINEMA OF NOISE #36 - September 17th 2015
+ Alien [1979] directed by Ridley Scott
- footsteps • hum • engine pulse • movement • dripping water • metal chains • voice • water on hat

Sound Department [IMDB]

Max Bell ... sound consultant: Dolby
Andy King ... sound re-recording mixer: director's cut (as Andrew I. King)
Derrick Leather ... production sound mixer
Ray Merrin ... re-recording assistant mixer
Bill Rowe ... re-recording mixer
Jim Shields ... sound editor
Bryan Tilling ... dialogue editor

CINEMA OF NOISE #35 - September 14th 2015
+ House of Flying Daggers [2004] directed by Zhang Yimou
- forest • birds • blade • leaves • bamboo fx • shouts • body hits • whoosh fx • leaves • vegetation • branches • swords • insects

Sound Department [IMDB]

Steve Burgess ... sound effects editor
Huijun Cao ... location sound assistant
Chris Goodes ... sound editing assistant
Alex Gordon ... adr recordist
Wei He ... sound effects editor
Vic Kaspar ... sound editor
Jo Mion ... sound editor
Damon Mouris ... sound mixer assistant
Andrew Neil ... re-recording mix assistant / sound effects editor
Glenn Newnham ... sound editor
Zeliang Niu ... location sound assistant
Paul Pirola ... sound effects editor
Roger Savage ... sound mixer / sound re-recording mixer / sound supervisor
Blair Slater ... foley recordist
Jing Tao ... sound
Mario Vaccaro ... foley artist
Zhigang Zhang ... first sound assistant
Gina Nuccio ... additional adr editor (uncredited)

CINEMA OF NOISE #34 - September 11th 2015
+ Godzilla [1954] directed by Ishirô Honda
- radio • roar sfx • scream • fire • explosion • siren • bell • birds • debris • voice • clock tower • announcer voice

"In the 1954 original, the sound effects team tried unsuccessfully using animal sounds to create the roar of Godzilla. And actually it was Akira Ifukube, the music composer, who had the idea to use a musical instrument to create that classic shriek that we all know. And it was actually a double bass using a leather glove coated with pine-tar rosin to create friction. And they'd rub it against the string of the double bass to create that ehhh sound." - Erik Aadahl (Godzilla 2014 sound designer) / NPR Interview

Sound Department [IMDB]

Ichirô Minawa ... sound effects editor
Hisashi Shimonaga ... sound recordist
Nobuyuki Tanaka ... sound assistant
Norio Tone ... sound assistant

Music [+ roar sfx] by

Akira Ifukube

CINEMA OF NOISE #33 - September 9th 2015
+ Jurassic Park [1993] directed by Steven Spielberg
- crane • metal gate • bull• birds • scream • roar • rip • eating • leaves

CINEMA OF NOISE #32 - September 4th 2015
+ Fight Club [1999] directed by David Fincher
- train • tunnel • skyline • metal • fx • voices • punches • movement • vo • footsteps

CINEMA OF NOISE #31 - September 1st 2015
+ The Sword of Doom [1966] directed by Kihachi Okamoto
- drum • cutlery • wind • stab • bell • paper ripping • wood • baby crying • scream • voices • shakuhachi • breathing • piano rumble

Sound Department [IMDB]

Hisashi Shimonaga ... sound effects editor
Shin Watarai ... sound
Masaru Satô ... music