Essays On Sound And Vision

SUMARIO. Introduction ; John Richardson and Stan Hawkins / Avant-garde aesthetics. Aphex twin : monstrous hermaphrodites, madness and the strain of independent dance music ; Stan Hawkins / Listening to video art and the problem of too many homelands ; Anahid Kassabian / Going with the flow : compositional and analytical perspectives on soundtracks for experimental films ; Petri Kuljuntausta and John Richardson / Re-sounding soundtracks. Demystified, remystified, and seduced by sirens : listening to David Lynch's films ; Annette Davison / Stardom, genre, and myth : music in Ani Kaurismaki's film The man without a past ; Erkki Pekkila / Televisual intertexts. Musical migration, perverted instruments and cosmic sounds : queer constructions in the music and sound of Angels in America ; Susanna Valimaki / A dialogue with the past : references to sixties culture in the title sequence of Friends ; Yrjo Heinonen / Interrogating the mainstream. An introduction to the participatory and non-linear aspects of video games audio ; Karen Collins / Diegetic music in Star wars : the case of the Max Rebo Band ; Antti-Ville Karja / Personal politics and embodied performance. Aesthetic and performative considerations of Christina Milian's music video Dip it low ; Jon Refsdal Moe / Envisioning the future : technology, futurism and the politics of race in Detroit techno ; Sanna Rojola / Double-voiced discourse and bodily pleasures in contemporary Finnish rock : the case of Maija Vilkkumaa ; John Richardson.