Naslov
The Sounds of Space: Real-World Science Fiction Sounds and Unexplainable Noises

Autori
Willems, Brian Daniel

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Reality Unbound: New Departures in Science Fiction Cinema

Urednik/ci
Power, Adrian

Izdavač
Bertz ; Gustav Fischer Verlag

Grad
Berlin

Godina
2016

Raspon stranica
147-159

ISBN
978-3865052513

Ključne riječi
Science Fiction ; Sound
(Science Fiction ; sound)

Sažetak
"In space no one can hear you scream." This was the tagline for Ridley Scott's 1979 sf horror movie Alien and it refers to the fact that sound waves have no air to travel over in the near vacuum of outer space. Yet rather than leaving no role for sound in sf films, this fact has only made sf sound more interesting. Three films are taken as representative of different ways sound is rescheduled into where it does not belong: Arthur Hilton's Cat-Women of the Moon (1953) features a telepathic sound which can only pass between women ; Pavel Klushantsev's Planet of Storms (1962, along with its American re-dubs in 1965 and 1968) features a mysterious voice which actually seems to be the sound of the planet Venus itself ; and in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 (1969) the monolith seems to emit a sound while on the silent surface of the moon, although the sound is never fully matched to its source. All three types of sound foreground something similar, what Timothy Morton calls "non-locality, " here meaning the way that sound occupies vastly different scales of time and space when compared to the human perception of things. One of the consequences of "non-local" sound is that the definition of what sound is becomes wider than expected. In a real-world example, in 2013 Voyager 1 recorded an oscillation of electromagnetic waves caused by a solar eruption ; these waves are not sound yet they fluctuate at the same frequency as the sounds we hear, and thus the eruption becomes audible: this forms a real-world example of how to understand hearing sounds where they do not exist-- in space.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Znanost o umjetnosti

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