...Judith A. Peraino Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 Plumbing the Surface of Sound and Vision David Bowie, Andy Warhol, and the Art of Posing judith a. peraino Two fi gures posed in the foreground, wearing nearly identical makeup—lipstick, eyeliner, base, rouge, and a thin...

...Julie Beth Napolin Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 “A Sinister Resonance” Vibration, Sound, and the Birth of Conrad’s Marlow julie beth napolin I shall vanish into space (there’s no space) and the vibrations that make up me, shall go to the making of some other fool...

...Lilya Kaganovsky Copyright © 2010 Qui Parle 2010 There Is No Acoustic Relation Considerations on Sound and Image in Post-Soviet Film lilya kaganovsky Kira Muratova’s 1992 fi lm, Chuvstvitel’nyi militsioner (The Sen- timental Policeman), opens with a close-up of a baby’s face.1...

.... In a recent broadside on German music, Alex Ross sets his sights on Helmut Lachenmann, Germany's current "great man." Of course, "there is no denying Lachenmann's virtuosity; he is able to arrange the unlikeliest assortment of sounds — flutes blown at the wrong end, cellos bowed in places other than...

... it is practiced, where it negotiates the boundaries between material and immaterial, text and sound, where it wears out, frays in contact with these opposing forces. The “liner” note might be the sign of what is thrown out, what is ejected from song. Cer- tainly, the liner note is one...

... as he could, from the troubling consequences of sensible things. He 2 qui parle fall/winter 2010 vol.19, no.1 would study the laws of sound without needing to encounter them in bodily form, and he would acquire knowledge of the properties of audible things by the aid of reason...

... to the perception of sound in gen- eral, the human ear is, above all, tuned to this vocal emission that reveals singular bodies to one another. In contrast to speech, the voice puts hearing in play even before listening. 72 qui parle fall/winter 2012 vol.21, no.1 Speaking Voice Auditory...

... composed from any combination of sounds.4 It furthermore pro- duced assorted inhuman sounds, from a pig’s squeal to a voice of impossible bass, all with an “electrical accent.” Five million visi- tors attended the exhibit in New York alone; many had diffi culty...

... of the founding texts of modern architecture.4 Perrault’s real passion, however, was the ear. It was in a book on sound and the ear that he laid the foundation of what may well be his legacy as a leading fi gure of the late-seventeenth-century sci- entifi c and philosophical avant...

... silence, every silence—is quite possibly their song. Awaiting the moment, their moment, to wash over him again.   Where perhaps the very sound of death—if there were a sound to death—lies in the moment when the rocks and water collide: after all, should the Sirens have bothered with Odysseus...

... into purely electronic streams of sound, thus creating a whole new array of fetish-objects that in- teract with the body differently (wires that plug directly into the ears, for instance). Do you think the rise of electrifi ed songs and the shift from a record paradigm...

... the men who went out after these little animals. I remember nothing but how Lucille held my hand, how bright were the flares of light—not flashlights but wood sticks burning—and the sound of crickets. Only now that I’m in Tennessee, some fifty years later, do I realize how much possums matter. Lucille...

... lover in the streets of London map a new time-space where the same tiny sensory events—for instance, the sound of an explosion or the smoke letters drawn by a plane in the sky—gradually spread and include in the same circle all types of individuals and notably those anonymous ones whom the old...

... (although, as we indicated, the major mode occurs at the end of each A section). The vaguely tri- umphant sound of the leap to A-flat major is quickly undermined however. The harmony oscillates between A-flat major and C major and does not affix the "ideal" of "whiteness...

... at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts in New York City. Her book in progress, The Acoustics of Narrative In- volvement, poses a theory of literary sound studies, examining the relationship between sound, narrative, and the body in the works of Conrad and Faulkner...

... of language, so that lan- guage can ultimately flow back into the empty subject. Lyric is then at once the extreme of subjective expression — language saturated with the subject — and of objective language, language as pure form. "The subject," writes Adorno, "sounds forth...

... and social fracture. In the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her silver jubilee to the sound track of the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen”—or at least she would surely have done so, had the bbc and the Independent Broadcasting Authori- ty not denied the record access to the airwaves...

... from one qualitatively different medium into another. . . . Like electricity into sound waves. Or heat into pain. Or light waves into vision. Or vision into imagination. Or noise in the ear into music in the heart. Or outside coming in .” 23 Ghosts are analog insofar as they are transmitted...

...” (the fi rst item) sounds like a lot of fun, but what, precisely are these English majors sup- posed to be studying? Majors in art or psychology or the Marshall School of Business are, after all, also recipients of this “cross-fertil- ization” of Los Angeles, so what’s unique...