Abstract

“I don’t believe what people say to me, I believe the way they say it,” Christian Bobin said. “This is where the sonic is located, in the manner of speaking, in the way in which bodies move and silences occur.”It would be hard to argue that sound is something the public or professionals, whose work is to create sound, actually think about carefully and consciously, as strange as this might seem. Sound in film is rarely addressed from a theoretical perspective. Few books are dedicated to it beyond purely technical works, and those do not often consider the aesthetic conditions of sound production. The question of the existence of sound is abandoned in favor of normalizing procedures for producing it, absent any...