Where does that music come from? – On music and film (1) from Beyond the Bony Labyrinth

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Lodewijk Muns

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Where does that music come from? – On music and film (1)

25 minutes Posted Jan 27, 2025 at 12:00 am.

Intro

Some things are more thingish than others

The three-dimensionality of sound

The acousmatic experience

Is music acousmatic by nature?

Where does that music come from?

L. Muns, Le chien acousmatique: petit essai de musique concrète.

F. Schubert, Sonata in E-flat Major D568 (piano*).

L. van Beethoven, Sonata in C-sharp Minor op. 27 nr. 2 (Mondschein) (sinus tones/piano*).

C. Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande. C. Abbado, Wiener Philharmoniker. DGG 4353442.

Casablanca (film). Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Dooley Wilson, Max Steiner. Warner Brothers 1943.

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What kind of ‘thing’ is music? To what extent do we hear music as sound, as something with a source and a cause? And how do we explain the presence of music in cinema?

Music fragments:

*Lodewijk Muns, piano

Quoted text:

R. Scruton, The Aesthetics of Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997

Further references in:

L. Muns, ‘The Acousmatic Experience’. Lodewijk Muns (blog). https://lodewijkmuns.nl/2020/11/19/acousmatic-experience/

L. Muns, ‘The Archaic Ear’. Lodewijk Muns (blog). https://lodewijkmuns.nl/2020/11/09/the-archaic-ear/

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