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- Title
Cartographic Soundtrack: Voice, Sound and Music in Birdman.
- Authors
De Souza Lima, Henrique Rocha
- Abstract
Some cinema theories conceive film as a kind of cartographic technology. This status is attributed to the film's capacity to trigger a specific mode of logical reasoning, which is based on the semiotic category of diagram (; ). This paper focuses on the status of sound within these theoretical perspectives, in which the soundtrack is conceived as an expansion of the space implicated in the image, implying an expansion of narrative potential. The concept of cartographic soundtrack here refers to the soundtrack's potential to map the elements of a 'mental geography' (). This concept is articulated as a critical operator in an analysis of the soundtrack of Birdman (2014), a film that performs diverse modes of placing voice, sound design and music in the context of a soundtrack. The analysis approaches the soundtrack from both compositional and aesthetical points of view, by evaluating a set of intrinsic features of this soundtrack, as well as some controversies involving its reception by institutional contexts, namely the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The paper intends to contribute with a discussion on the problem of the need for suitable criteria when it comes to evaluate soundtracks, as well as to new ways to think cinematic listening.
- Subjects
FILM soundtracks; BIRDMAN: Or, the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance (Film); ACADEMY of Motion Picture Arts &; Sciences; CARTOGRAPHY; REASONING
- Publication
New Soundtrack, 2017, Vol 7, Issue 2, p137
- ISSN
2042-8855
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/sound.2017.0105