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Sound sleep furiously

Sound sleep furiously In his review of ’s film sleep furiously – published in Sight and Sound – the Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville refers to the embodied act of ‘looking’. He writes: It may seem an overly simplified exhortation given the dire predicament we have got ourselves into, yet would it not make at least a good start on the road to recovery from our present soul-sickness if we were to stand back and just look? (Banville 2009: 44) This article by takes the idea further by considering the act of listening and in doing so gives some sense of how he and his collaborators evolved the soundscape for sleep furiously. To see in every day and year a symbol of all the days of man and his years, and convert the outrage of the years into a music, a sound, and a symbol. (Borges 1967: 199) sleep furiously is a feature film set in Trefeurig, a hill-farming community in mid Wales. It is a landscape that is changing rapidly as small-scale agriculture, which characterised the area, is disappearing and the last The New Soundtrack 1.1 (2011): 1–11 DOI: 10.3366/sound.2011.0002 # Edinburgh University Press www.eupjournals.com/SOUND KEYWORDS hearing the unseen documentary http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The New Soundtrack Edinburgh University Press

Sound sleep furiously

Koppel, Gideon
The New Soundtrack , Volume 1 (1): 1 – Mar 1, 2011
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Edinburgh University Press
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Articles; Film, Media and Cultural Studies
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In his review of ’s film sleep furiously – published in Sight and Sound – the Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville refers to the embodied act of ‘looking’. He writes: It may seem an overly simplified exhortation given the dire predicament we have got ourselves into, yet would it not make at least a good start on the road to recovery from our present soul-sickness if we were to stand back and just look? (Banville 2009: 44) This article by takes the idea further by considering the act of listening and in doing so gives some sense of how he and his collaborators evolved the soundscape for sleep furiously. To see in every day and year a symbol of all the days of man and his years, and convert the outrage of the years into a music, a sound, and a symbol. (Borges 1967: 199) sleep furiously is a feature film set in Trefeurig, a hill-farming community in mid Wales. It is a landscape that is changing rapidly as small-scale agriculture, which characterised the area, is disappearing and the last The New Soundtrack 1.1 (2011): 1–11 DOI: 10.3366/sound.2011.0002 # Edinburgh University Press www.eupjournals.com/SOUND KEYWORDS hearing the unseen documentary

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The New Soundtrack – Edinburgh University Press

Published: Mar 1, 2011

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