The Voice in Documentary Sound Design: A Digital Revolution

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Cagle
Keyword(s):  
Sound Design ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The Voice

Lost in Sensation

2013 ◽  
pp. 60-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Whittington
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Sound Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Quiet Revolution ◽  
Design Practices

This article appears in the Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media edited by Carol Vernallis, Amy Herzog, and John Richardson. This essay argues that sound processes, design practices, and technology have shaped the history and trajectory of digital media in significant and all-to-often unacknowledged ways. Specifically, sound design strategies have helped define the “hyperrealistic” approach that has come to define the style of digital media, establishing unprecedented image and sound unity. Sound has also taken the lead in establishing new forms of “spectacle” and “immersion” through the use of multichannel technologies, which have fostered new cinematic reading codes and considerations in regard to subjectivity. Within the digital “revolution,” the soundtrack offers a quiet revolution of its own, if we just listen.

scholarly journals Attitudes and Perceptions Toward Healthcare Technology Adoption Among Older Adults in Singapore: A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah T. H. Low ◽  
P. Govind Sakhardande ◽  
Yi Feng Lai ◽  
Andrew D. S. Long ◽  
Satveer Kaur-Gill
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Healthcare Industry ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Attitudes And Perceptions ◽  
The Voice

Smart Nation is a key initiative of Singapore to move toward digitalization of its industries including healthcare. The complex negotiations of aging amid Smart Nation are addressed in this paper, where we study the challenges faced to adapt the elderly for the digital revolution while ensuring dignified aging. While the healthcare industry accelerates its study and use of health technologies to improve diagnostics, treatment, and the quality of life of those in the aging category, the elderly socially construct these technological insertions that challenge the dominant understandings of what these technologies can do for their health outcomes. The study reveals re-constructions of these technological insertions through the voice of the elderly in their negotiations with health technologies in their everyday lives. Here, narratives reveal key themes that proliferate technology negotiation as barriers to everyday lived experiences.

Voicing the Cinema

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Film Music ◽  
Sound Design ◽  
Singing Voice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Narrow Concept ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice

The introduction sets up the scope and framework of the volume as a whole. Over the past three decades, the study of the film soundtrack has developed into a rich scholarly discipline, characterized by diverse approaches and methodologies. As an object of theoretical focus, the voice has helped correct the long-standing ocularcentrism of film theory discourse. Yet, the voice as a narrow concept is itself problematic in that it limits our understanding of how it functions among the various components of the soundtrack. Understood as part of an integrated soundtrack—that is, a soundtrack where the various components have a sense of being planned or composed and where sound design and music are blended into a kind of conceptual unity—the voice assumes a somewhat different role and allows for a more complex and interpretively richer conceptual framework. This volume aims to reconsider and broaden our notion of what the voice as a concept can do for studies of film music and sound. The introduction explores theoretical concerns relating to film dialogue, vococentrism, the spectacle of the singing voice, film music’s commentative function as voice, as well as the voice of various cinematic authorship and production. It concludes with a brief summary of each chapter in the volume. Considering these many different conceptions of “voice” can provide new perspectives on how we consider the relationship between voice and cinema, broadly defined.

scholarly journals Voice in the Metadiegetic Space of the Motion Picture

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-59
Author(s):  
E A Rusinova
Keyword(s):  
Motion Picture ◽  
Sound Design ◽  
Human Voice ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Design Techniques

This extension of the authors publication cycle Audiovisual Means of Creating Metadiegetic Space in Cinema (Vestnik VGIK #1(31), 2017; #2 (32), 2017) is a historical, artistical and technological survey of special sound-design techniques that make it possible to use the expressive potential of a human voice in a subjective (metadiegetic) space of the motion picture and through the voice to separate the metadiegetis from the sound realism of the diegesis of an audio-visual production.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Film Music ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Sound Design ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
Default State ◽  
Narrow Concept ◽  
Voice Dialogue ◽  
The Voice

Over the past three decades, the study of the film soundtrack has developed into a rich scholarly discipline, characterized by diverse approaches and methodologies drawn from such fields as musicology, music theory, film and media studies, and sound studies. As an object of theoretical focus, the voice has helped correct the long-standing ocularcentrism of film theory discourse. Yet, the voice as a narrow concept is itself problematic in that it limits our understanding of how it functions among the various components of the soundtrack. Traditionally, the voice has been given great deference in production, even as dialogue has been denigrated in film theory. This has led to a curious conceptual framework for the soundtrack where the default state of synchronized dialogue in filmmaking is treated as a merely redundant figure or even as a profoundly ideological delusion in film theory. Understood as part of an integrated soundtrack—that is, a soundtrack where the various components have a sense of being planned or composed and where sound design and music are blended into a kind of conceptual unity—the voice (dialogue in particular) assumes a somewhat different role and allows for a more complex and interpretively richer conceptual framework. Many films—and increasingly in contemporary cinema of all sorts—downplay the centrality of dialogue even as the soundtrack as a whole assumes a crucial role in these films’ spectacle. This volume aims to reconsider and broaden our notion of what the voice as a concept can do for studies of film music and sound....

Public School Voice Clinics, Part I

1984 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
Sandra Q. Miller ◽  
Charles L. Madison
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
School District ◽  
Voice Disorders ◽  
Urban School ◽  
Urban School District ◽  
Local School District ◽  
Local School ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Voice Problem

The purpose of this article is to show how one urban school district dealt with a perceived need to improve its effectiveness in diagnosing and treating voice disorders. The local school district established semiannual voice clinics. Students aged 5-18 were referred, screened, and selected for the clinics if they appeared to have a chronic voice problem. The specific procedures used in setting up the voice clinics and the subsequent changes made over a 10-year period are presented.

Hormone Replacement Therapy and Voice

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-614
Author(s):  
Jean Abitbol
Keyword(s):  
Replacement Therapy ◽  
Symptom Severity ◽  
Low Dose ◽  
Hormone Replacement ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Female Voice ◽  
Fat Cells ◽  
High Pitch ◽  
Endocrine Effects ◽  
The Voice

The purpose of this article is to update the management of the treatment of the female voice at perimenopause and menopause. Voice and hormones—these are 2 words that clash, meet, and harmonize. If we are to solve this inquiry, we shall inevitably have to understand the hormones, their impact, and the scars of time. The endocrine effects on laryngeal structures are numerous: The actions of estrogens and progesterone produce modification of glandular secretions. Low dose of androgens are secreted principally by the adrenal cortex, but they are also secreted by the ovaries. Their effect may increase the low pitch and decease the high pitch of the voice at menopause due to important diminution of estrogens and the privation of progesterone. The menopausal voice syndrome presents clinical signs, which we will describe. I consider menopausal patients to fit into 2 broad types: the “Modigliani” types, rather thin and slender with little adipose tissue, and the “Rubens” types, with a rounded figure with more fat cells. Androgen derivatives are transformed to estrogens in fat cells. Hormonal replacement therapy should be carefully considered in the context of premenopausal symptom severity as alternative medicine. Hippocrates: “Your diet is your first medicine.”

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