Audiovisual Space: Recontextualising Sound-Image Media

空间转向席卷了更广泛的人文学科，但并没有显著地帮助我们理解声音和图像之间的关系。视听媒体仍然经常在视觉上有偏见的时间框架中概念化，根据叙事结构的层次进行划分。这个项目试图调查空间思维是否可以提供对视听的新理解，在视听中，所有的声音和图像元素(及其空间属性)都可以被识别为构成我们视听体验的基本积极参与者。这个项目将邀请奥斯卡和艾美奖获奖的声音设计专业人士进行合作研究，解开他们的默契，并调查空间思维在他们的实践中所起的作用。这个项目采取跨学科的方法，试图使用空间的概念来分析和批评既定的视听理论，弥合传统的学科界限，并启发理解声音和图像媒体的新视角。传统的学术研究和创作实践将作为检验和审问假说的补充方法，致力于了解和了解视听艺术品。这个项目汇集了一系列不同学科领域的研究(包括电声音乐、声音艺术、电影音乐学、电影实践、空间研究、建筑和人类学)，并采用基于学术和实践的方法，试图传递新的理解，可以传达给不同的学术受众和创意行业的从业者。成果有可能使视听媒体学者、希望通过批判性理解发展其创造性实践的学生和毕业生，以及寻求接触最新理论观点以促进其实践的创意行业专业人员受益。这一项目将：1.综合电声音乐、电影声音练习、空间研究和电影研究的概念，以发展对视听作为空间结构的新的跨学科理解[产出--A、B、D、F、G]。与非学术电影声音从业者接触，促进知识交流，告知理论理解，并将学术界的影响播撒到创意产业[产出--E、F、G、C]。制定研究议程，通过会议、期刊特刊和编辑卷[产出--C、D、E、F、G]，促进国际跨学科协作和交流。主办国际网络活动，将视听和邻近领域的研究人员聚集在一起，在项目和出版物[产出-G、C、E、F]上合作。除了大学的学者和研究人员外，该项目还积极吸引领先的创意专业人员(通过与电影音响协会(AMPS)的合作)利用商业电影专业人员的广泛默契知识。这一方法使研究结果得以三角划分，并有机会从一系列不同的角度调查视听的空间概念。产出将包括书籍、学术期刊文章、编辑卷、视听作品、无线电工作、公开演讲和会议。将举办研究人员网络活动(重点是支持职业生涯初期的学者)，作为与这一活动有关的领导活动的一部分，让欧洲和国际研究界参与调查和促进视听空间领域研究的新议程。

The spatial turn, which swept the wider humanities, has not significantly contributed to inform our understandings of sound and image relationships. Audiovisual media are still often conceptualised in visually biassed, temporal frameworks, divided in relation to layers of narrative structure. This project seeks to investigate if spatial thinking can provide new understandings of the audiovisual, in which all sound and image elements (and their spatial properties) can be identified as fundamentally active participants in constituting our audiovisual experiences. This project will engage Oscar and EMMY award winning Sound Design professionals in collaborative research to unpack their tacit knowledge and to investigate the role that spatial thinking plays within their practice.Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this project seeks to use concepts of space to analyse and critique established audiovisual theories, bridging traditional subject boundaries and inspiring new perspectives for understanding sound and image media. Both traditional scholarly research and creative practice will be applied as complementary methodologies to test and interrogate hypotheses, working towards knowing both 'about' and 'through' audiovisual artefacts.Bringing together research from a range of different subject areas (including electroacoustic music, sound art, film musicology, film practice, spatial studies, architecture & anthropology) as well as adopting both scholarly and practice based methodologies, this project seeks to deliver new understandings which can be communicated to diverse academic audiences and practitioners within the creative industries. Outcomes have the potential to benefit scholars of audiovisual media, students and graduates looking to develop their creative practices through critical understandings, and creative industry professionals seeking to engage with the latest theoretical perspectives to advance their practices. Outcomes will be particularly relevant for studies in emerging areas such as Virtual Reality where conventional temporal constructs of film are dissolved by the mediumThis project will:1. Synthesise concepts from electroacoustic music, film sound practice, spatial studies and film studies towards developing new interdisciplinary understandings of the audiovisual as spatial constructs [Outputs - A,B,D,F,G].2. Engage with non-academic film sound practitioners to stimulate knowledge exchange, informing theoretical understandings and seeding impact from academia into the creative industries [Outputs - E,F,G,C].3. Establish agendas of research, facilitating international interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange via conferences, journal special issues and edited volumes [Outputs - C,D,E,F,G].4. Host international networking events to bring together fellow researchers within audiovisual and contiguous fields to work collaboratively on projects and publications [Outputs - G,C,E,F].In addition to academics and researchers in universities, this project actively involves leading creative professionals (via partnership with the Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS)) engaging the extensive tacit knowledge from professionals working in commercial film. This methodology enables the triangulation of research findings and the opportunity to investigate spatial conceptions of the audiovisual from a range of different perspectives. Outputs will include books, academic journal articles, edited volumes, audiovisual compositions, radiophonic work, public talks and conferences.Networking events for researchers (with emphasis on supporting Early Career academics) will take place as part of the Leadership activities associated with this event, engaging both European and international research communities in the investigation of and promotion of new agendas of research in the area of audiovisual space.