Omniloft 2020
Read my short story in a genre I call Academic Fiction, or Speculative Ethnography. Here is the opening: On Friday, November 13 2020, a large group of Omniloft employees got…
Quebec’s creative industries and the pandemic
The key takeaway of this survey is that the vast majority of participants expressed curiously dissonant combinations of hope and uncertainty, wavering between optimism and sombre expectations for the impending “new normal.”
From Film Practice to Data Process – Book Review
The official book review published [here] Atkinson, Sarah. From Film Practice to Data Process: Production Aesthetics and Representational Practices of a Film Industry in Transition. Edinburgh Univiversity Press, 2018. Reviewed…
The Life of Numbers
What kind of information can be gleaned from entertainment industry statistics? How do they influence our understanding of film, or television, or videogames as more than just pastimes? What more…
Restoration as performance: live dubbing for the silver screen
Update: re-recording classic soundtracks of the Burmese screen has been temporarily put on ice due to the political instability of the region. It is, however, critical to recognize that the…
Critical Listening
[project site] (archive) Critical Listening is a long-term research project with several objectives. It is intended to provide a set of skills and listening strategies that every musician, sound engineer,…
Return of the Irrational
The Ritual, the Esoteric, the Irrational are concepts pushed to the recesses of the modern, actuarial, techno-managed mind. Nevertheless, even as we are told (and shown) exemplary scenarios of interplanetary…
Sound Studies – recommended authors
Here (in no particular order) is a list of scholars who have produced work in the field of Sound Studies and Sound for the Moving Image (Film Sound if you…