Randolph Jordan

Publications

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Forthcoming in Print:

 

Audiovisual Ecology in the Cinema.

Cinephile. Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 2010).

Journal info here.



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Recently in Print:

 

Movimento e stasi I film di Ishii Sogo (Movement and Stasis in the Films of Sogo Ishii).

Cinergie. No. 19 (Spring 2010): 34-35.

Co-Authored with Peter Rist.

Journal info here.

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The Visible Acousmetre: Voice, Body and Space Across the Two Versions of Donnie Darko.

Music, Sound and the Moving Image. Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 2009): 47-70.

Journal info here.

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Book Review: Pervert in the Pulpit: Morality in the Works of David Lynch, by Jeff Johnson.

The Journal of Popular Film and Television. Vol. 36, No. 1 (Spring 2009).

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"Case Study: Film Sound, Acoustic Ecology and Performance in Electroacoustic Music."

Music, Sound and Multi-Media: From the Live to the Virtual. Jamie Sexton, ed.
University of Edinburgh Press, 2007:121-141.

Publisher's info here.

Preview this article here.

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"The Mask that Conceals Nothing:
Marital Fidelity and the Lo-Fi Soundscape in Eyes Wide Shut."

Stanley Kubrick. Gary Rhodes, ed. Jefferson: McFarland, 2007:157-169.

Publisher's info here.

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"The Dual Substance of Cinema: What Kazantzakis's Christ can teach us about Sound/Image Relationships in Film."

Scandalizing Jesus? : Kazantzkis's The Last Temptation of Christ Fifty Years On. Darren J. N. Middleton, ed. New York: Continuum, 2005:203-216.

Publisher's info here.

Preview this article here.

Book review here.

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“Emerging from Loss: Hearing Regained.”

Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology. Vol. 6. No. 2 (winter 2006).

Access this issue in PDF here.

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“Life on the Edge of Perception: Immobility in Recent Video Installations.”

Ciel Variable. No. 67 (summer 2005).

Read it here.

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“Melodrama for a Dying Medium: Richard Kerr’s Adventures on the Periphery.”

Exhibition Catalogue for Richard Kerr's Industry show, Nov. 4 2004 – Jan. 23 2005. Cinematheque Quebequoise, Montreal, QC.

Read it here.

 

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Online:

Jordan recently edited a special double-issue of the online film journal Offscreen dedicated to sound theory and practice in the cinema and beyond:

"Sound in the Cinema and Beyond." Randolph Jordan, ed.

Offscreen. Vol. 11, Nos. 8-9 (August/Sep. 2007).

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Squalid Infidelities:

An ongoing column in Synoptique exploring the concept of fidelity in sound theory and beyond.

Squalid Infidelities - 01 - A Question of Definition

Squalid Infidelities - 02 - Eyes Wide Shut

Squalid Infidelities - 03 - Big Fun in my Living Room

Squalid Infidelities - 04 - Chasing the Diegetic Dragon

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Essays on Offscreen Concerning Sound and Film

The Work of Hildegard Westerkamp in the Films of Gus Van Sant: An Interview with the Soundscape Composer (and some added thoughts of my own)

The Echopeople: Reflections on the Concept of Echolocation in "Gerry"

Brakhage's Silent Legacy for Sound Cinema

Transcending the Fragmentation of Experience: The Acousmêtre On the Air in the Films of Michael Snow

Islands of Order: Patterns of Decay in the Rock of Progression

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Review Essays

Synaesthetic Videos from Austria - Offscreen - Vol. 9, No. 11 (Nov. 2005)

Shadows of Computers - Magazine du CIAC - No. 18

PDF version here

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Interviews

En Contexte: Un Entretien avec Hildegard Westerkamp - Hors-champ - February 2007

Randolph Interviews Richard Kerr about the Industry Show

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Festival Coverage for Offscreen

Festival Nouveau Cinema 2009: The Long End of the Short

Town and Country: City Films and the Wilderness at Festival Nouveau Cinema 2008

A Dozen Defining Moments from Fantasia 2008

America Goes Green at Fantasia 2007

Lights in the Dusk: Beautiful Beasts at FCN 2006

Fantasia 2006: A Strange Circus Indeed

Pregnant Silences: Waiting in Excpectation at Fantasia 2004/05

Suicide, Regeneration, and a Tear Upon Waking: Fantasia 2003

Suicide is for the Birds: Takashi Miike's Tales of De-Territorializing Flight at Fantasia 2003 and Beyond

FCMM 2002: Short Films Exposed

Comedia 2002: Documentaries and Shorts

Mutek 2002 - Part One: The Panels

Mutek 2002 - Part Two: The Performances

Mutek 2002 - Part Three: The Films

Sounding Off: Report on FCMM 2001

Fantasia 2001 Report: Post 9/11

Fantasia 2001: Mid-Festival Report