Brown, Christopher and Knight-Hill, Andrew (2018) Stories of a ruined space: filmic and sonic approaches to practice-as-research. Media Practice and Education, 19 (3). ISSN 2574-1136 (Accepted)

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Abstract

This article reflects on the authors’ work in investigating how audiovisual practices might represent the experience of disused or ruined structures. With backgrounds in visual and sound practice respectively, the authors have, in their most recent experimental film project 'Coccolith' (2018), conceived the Ramsgate wartime tunnels in Kent as a point of collision for divergent artistic approaches to the representation of space. Challenging the site’s association with wartime mythology, the project sought to reconfigure the relationship between film and sound practice in order to articulate an alternative representation of the tunnels’ history, heritage and temporality. The article reflects on the role of the sound designer in developing soundscapes that embodied the ruined space, and on the role of the director in visually conceiving a spatial experience of the tunnels characterized by the absence of sound – silence. We argue that in conceiving an audiovisual project in terms of texture and gesture, it is possible to reconceptualize both the role of the soundtrack in relation to a film’s diegesis, and the role of the director in relation to sound design.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	space, audiovisual, texture, gesture, Ramsgate, Coccolith
Schools and Departments:	School of Media, Film and Music > Media and Film
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion pictures
Depositing User:	Christopher Brown
Date Deposited:	02 Oct 2018 13:56
Last Modified:	02 Oct 2018 13:56
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/79085

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