The Audiovisual Chord

Dr. Martine Huvenne retired after a career teaching and researching in the audio-visual field. She was a senior lecturer in Sound and Music for Film at the Kask & Conservatorium (Hogent-Howest), Belgium, where she developed a phenomenological approach to music and listening.

Introduction.- Part I.- “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.”.- Audiovisual perception: the audiovisual contract, heautonomy of sound and image and filmic listening.- Phenomenology, an introductionv.- Part II.- A phenomenological approach to audiovisual experience in practice.- Thinking in movement, and different ways to create space in film sound.- The audiovisual chord, an invitation to the audience to interact.- Part III.- Embodied listening, felt sound and the audiovisual chord in film history.- The audiovisual chord in relation to film as an audiovisual composition.- The importance of embodied (panic) listening in film as an audiovisual composition.- A phenomenological approach to film sound and film at the basis of film-making.- Conclusion.