There is something to confess: your speaker likes to leave a movie theater. Back out on the more or less empty, more or less brightly lit sidewalk (it is invariably at night, and during the week, that he goes), and heading uncertainly for some cafe or other, he walks in silence (he doesn’t like discussing the film he’s just seen), a little dazed, wrapped up in himself, feeling the cold - he’s sleepy, that’s what he’s thinking, his body has become something sopitive, soft, limp, and he feels a little disjointed, even (for a moral organization, relief comes only from this quarter) irresponsible. In other words, obviously, he’s coming out of hypnosis. (Leaving the Movie Theater, Roland Barthes)

Film is considered a visual medium. It is something we watch.

Moving images framing auditory attenion, film as a sound art, the cinema as a shared listening space.

At the intersection between film, sound and experimental music, The Cinema of Noise research project aims to explore film as something that we listen to; a sonic experience unique to the cinema.

Part 1: The Cinema as Listening Space: Embodied Listening

Part 2: Film as a Sonic Medium: Compelled to Listen