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Образ и звукозапись: плейлист визуальных мотивов для исследований звука
The article addresses the problem of theorizing the relationship between sound and visuality on the material of the more specific topics of recorded sound and visual image. The text is organized as a playlist: throughout the eight sound examples, it identifies the concepts of current image theory that are relevant for theoretical problems of sound studies. Most of the selected examples capture and process ambient sounding spaces, but they do so through different means. In the first example, we draw from the theme of evocation (the ability of the image and the recorded sound to provoke acts of imagination), which takes on a special significance in recorded sound, since it has no traditional need to simulate a “correct” model of perception (to “arrest” it). The following examples explore the theme of silence, demonstrating that the notion of the lateral and the problem of pictorial mark are relevant for its disclosure: they help to work with the indeterminacy of sound, which shares some properties with the indeterminacy of images. The narrative then turns to the theme of the materiality of sound and sound as material evidence: the examples of the Johnstown audio recording and Bob Ostertag’s album help to explore the notion of sonic props working simultaneously through evocation and the staging of a material environment. To clarify these notions, the example of ZX Spectrum tapes is considered, helping to draw attention to the notion of a causal milieu and referring to a metaphor from Pliny’s story that points to the possibility of the image not as representation but as a new material act inscribing itself into the world. Here the concepts of visual image and recorded sound intersect most closely, but further examples are intended to emphasize their differences: while operational and immersive images tend to turn their visuality weak and almost self-destroyed, the recorded sound avoids such a problem: it combines the evocative functions with the “enveloping” immersive properties.