Sounding the Inaudible: Rethinking the Musical Analogy in the City Symphonies of Walter Ruttmann and Dziga Vertov.

Scholars tend to conceive of city symphony films in terms of a musical analogy that likens their formal elements to those of a musical work. This article argues instead that those elements are also an inaudible expression of sound. It traces the influence of sonic avant-garde composers such as Luigi...

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Published in:Music, Sound & the Moving Image Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 1 - 32
Main Author: SCHWARTZ, DANIEL
Format: Article
Published: Liverpool University Press / Journals Spring2018
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