Word: audio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pieces planned for the interior are mildly surprising. Susuma Shingu's well-designed three-part windmill will link the street and tunnel through a large light shaft. As the mill revolves and dips in the winds, hammers will strike chimes which hang inside the station, creating a soothing audio-visual experience. But Christopher Janney, whose project "Soundstair" creates nothing but confusion at MIT, has also been unleashed in the station. Although Janney insists his intricate sound system presented only as a drawing will be coordinated with Shingu's chimes, his "sonic gates, soundstairs and sound central" all emit noises...
Atkinson followed his proctor's orders and, with the approval of Ronald E. Vanelli '41, director of the Science Center, kept his chemicals in the Science Center prep room--behind the four lecture halls, where a small staff prepares lecture demonstrations and audio-visual presentations...
This naturalistic quality of Altman's films is enhanced by his unconventional audio and visual techniques. With their overlapping voices and background noise, Altman's soundtracks have the thick texture of real world sound. Typical Hollywood soundtracks, with their neatly interspersed voices and carefully dubbed-in background music, sound contrived in comparison--almost sterile. Similarly, Altman relies heavily on long and medium camera shots, avoiding the manipulative feel of most Hollywood products. Altman's frames include the things he wants you to see, but he doesn't overemphasize them; he lets you observe for yourself...
Altman's naturalistic technique also permits him to parody Hollywood's audio and visual cliches. The imposing shots of the Corelli mansion in A Wedding, and the fanfare that accompanies them, are hilarious precisely because their contrived portentousness contrasts so dramatically with the look and sound of the rest of the film...
...certain it was actually Nicky talking. Nor did any of the other tapes link Barnes to narcotics. Though the Government contended that on one reel a man said he had to "pick up a kilo out of Nicky's car," the sound was blurred. A defense audio expert testified that the word was payroll and not kilo. Moreover, kilo is not street slang. Savvy dealers talk about "the package" or "the thing...