Cinesthesia 13 Original Broadcast April 18, 2024 Radio Playlist 1. Drones Over Dufferin / Rosy Fingered Dawn (from: Aural Obscura Vol. 1) 2. Ambulet / convenience (from: delayedGREEN) 3. Oliver Patrice Weder / RS (from: The Shoe Factory) 4. Drones Over Dufferin / Reprieve (from: Aural Obscura Vol. 1) 5. Oliver Patrice Weder / Golden Light (from: The Shoe Factory) 6. Drones Over Dufferin / Exposition (from: Aural Obscura Vol. 1) 7. Oliver Patrice Weder / Into Pieces (from: The Shoe Factory) 8. Drones Over Dufferin / Confrontation (from: Aural Obscura Vol. 1) 9. William Tyler / Arrival (from: Music From First Cow) 10. Drones Over Dufferin / Resolution (from: Aural Obscura Vol. 1) 11. William Tyler / A Closing (from: Music From First Cow) 12. Stephanie Sunata on making personal films. (from: https://youtu.be/7KHTPE-Uqus?si=5msRaNr7xBXTjhmw) with Laurent Petitgand / Engel (film: Faraway, So Close!) 13. William Tyler / An Opening (from: Music From First Cow) 14. Drones Over Dufferin / Memento Mori (from: Aural Obscura Vol. 1) 15. Ambulet / the birth (from: delayedGREEN)
Engagements with the essay film have utilized the caméra-stylo as metaphor for a film form that articulates intelligence and an individual point of view, typically accomplished through voice-over.” The concept of the Caméra-Stylo reminds me of the line in Birthmark (2018) that was used in the trailer. “I’m using the camera as a flashlight.” Instead of a pen, it’s a Caméra-Lamp-de-Poche or a Caméra-Flash. Used to to illuminate the dark parts of my inner basement, the making of Birthmark, revealed a belief that had to be excavated and destroyed. “Vococentrism is [Michel] Chion’s term for the cinematic soundtrack’s prioritization of the human voice over sound effects and music—their soundtracks are dominated and arranged around the human voice…[and] the very rhetoric of film, its framework, is constructed by the logic and nature of the voiceover.”
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Drones Over Dufferin https://dronesoverdufferin.bandcamp.com/album/aural-obscura-vol-i / https://dronesoverdufferin.bandcamp.com/album/aural-obscura-vol-ii
Oliver Patrice Weder https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-shoe-factory
You’re listening to Cinesthesia, produced live in the studio at Trent Radio 92.7 CFFF FM in beautiful (Nogojiwanong) Peterborough, Ontario, every Thursday at 5 PM. It’s also a podcast on SoundProof, creative nonfiction for audio. I’m your producer and host, LA Alfonso. In this audio program, film theory meets film music.