Literature Quotes (Audio-Vision)

Audio-Vision by Michel Chion

1. "Sound does have a means to suggest stasis, but only in limited cases. One could say that 'fixed sound' is that which entails no variations whatever as it is heard".
2. "Sound perception and visual perception have their own average pace by their nature; basically, the ear analyses, processes, and synthesises faster than the eye. Take a rapid visual movement - a hand gesture - and compare it to an abrupt sound trajectory of the same duration. The fast visual movement will not form a distinct figure, its trajectory will not enter the memory in a precise picture. In the same length of time the sound trajectory will succeed in outlining a clear and definite form, individuated, recognisable, distinguishable from others".

Three aspects of Temporalization.

1. "The first is temporal animation of the image. To varying degrees, sound renders the perception of time in the image as exact, detailed, immediate, concrete- or vague, fluctuating, broad".
2. "Second, sound endows shots with temporal linearisation. In the silent cinema, shots do not always indicate temporal succession, wherein what happens in shot B would necessarily follow what is shown in shot A. But synchronous sound does impose a sense of succession".
3. "Third, Sound vectorises or dramatisises shots, orienting them toward a future, a goal, and creation of a feeling of imminence and expectation. The shot is going somewhere and it is oriented in time".