To Elaborate on an Older Comment

[scifi129]

I tend to comment rather than create new posts, but I figured since I realize its hard to read everyone's comments, I'd elaborate here on an old comment I made last week on audio books. In summary, I said

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[ammamc]

For my English classes in Middle School, I also created music cds whenever I had a book report. I tried to select pieces in the cd that went along with the action and portrayed the ambiance of the book more. This is a very interesting point you bring up because maybe books should come with music cds where you can listen to the "feeling" of the book. Many times, have I created stories based on instrumental pieces I have heard and i named the short story after the musical piece because the reader would need to listen to that piece before they read the text.

[se101]

Music is in many ways is a narrative in just as many ways as print is. Musical selections have themes, and recurring motifs, as well as a sense of closure at the end of the piece. All of these items are part of a good narrative. Music that has no lyrics, is just a narrative without words. Converting stories to music is really not that unusual, since after all many epic songs were sung not simply spoken.

-Ross

Might make my ears bleed

[scifi129]

If music is a narrative in and of itself, as you have pointed out Ross, then perhaps we need to reevaluate Wavelength as a narrative. Emma brought up points in class about the music, how it was 'all wrong' on a technical level (as I am almost tone deaf I cannot hear the pitch differences, but rather one painful hum), and reading the music of Wavelength as narrative adds another layer to the idea of the life cycle narrative

Re: Might make my ears bleed

[se101]

I think you're absolutely right about music making film much more complex. Try watching a movie without music and you'll find that the narrative doesn't have the same meaning it once did. This is what makes film such a powerful narrative tool; it combines many different narrative discourses to provide a very powerful or painful(ex. Wavelength) sensory focused narrative.

-Ross

Music and movies

[klminmd]

It's funny but movies effect me very strongly sometimes. I feel like I have no sensor to tell me that "its only a movie". The twp Snow screenings mostly annoyed me because the sound hurt my ears. But my mind did wander to strange places that surprised me. Other than that, they just seemed odd or long. Something you sit through, like EraserHead, (I am usually thinking what the **@#%%@# is going on???) to try and figure out what all the hype is about. But if I watch a horror movie or a really tense or violent film, I often can only do so if the sound is off or I watch it in parts and then reconstruct the chronology at a latter time. Then I feel detached enough to get through the movie.
Narration and music play a big part in my emotional involvement.
klm

Music

[nonarey]

I completely agree ---- music is powerful.

Music can make or break a film. When we think of movies we have seen, we immediately think of the sound. The sound-waves capture the emotions of the story.

Think about sounds of comedies --light airy music --- Love stories --- dreamy ---Drama -- more drums.. . . and you can go on and on.