Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 6 offers concluding thoughts on various methods of blurring the line between score and sound design and their common themes such as integration, inclusion, the erasure of boundaries, and the toppling of hierarchies. The chapter notes the inner dialectics of this trend, epitomized in the forces of change understood as progression and those explained by the cyclical reappearance of certain tendencies. The former are manifested in the use of a contemporary musical language that draws on the whole world of sound and the use of digital technology; the latter include the musical approach to soundtrack, aesthetic trends such as the aesthetics of reticence, and a fascination with the materiality, texture, and hapticity of sound, which all have precedents of some kind in the past. This chapter asserts that the main methods of blurring the line between score and sound design are inspired by music or informed by musical logic.