Foley - Key words

Acoustic:

1. Relating sound to the sense of hearing 

2. Songs without electric amplification 

3. The properties or qualities of a room or building that determine how sound is transmitted in it 

Ambient: The background noise present in a location

Ambisonic: A type of audio that provides a representation of sound that can completely surround a listener

 

Appropriation: Taking, sampling, or borrowing audio material - such as recordings, motifs, or musical styles - from another source or culture, often without permission or proper acknowledgment

Audience: Who is listening, watching, or 'consuming' the media

Dada: an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by Dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature

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Ecology or Eco Art: a type of art that explores ecological issues, climate change, and natural phenomena. Eco artists often use natural materials and sustainable methods

Effects:

1. a change which is a result or consequence of an action or other cause.

2. the lighting, sound, or scenery used in a play, movie, or broadcast

Fabricate 

1. invent (something) in order to deceive

2. construct or manufacture (an industrial product), especially from prepared components

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Fluxus: an international avant-garde collective or network of artists and composers founded in the1960s and still continuing today

- Latin for flow or flowing 

Foley: relating to or concerned with the addition of recorded sound effects after the shooting of a film

- Named after the US film technician Jack Foley (1891–1967), the inventor of the process

Interval: 

1. A difference in pitch between two sounds 

2. The building blocks of scales, chords, and melodies

Musique Concrete: a style of experimental music that is composed using recorded sounds.

- Pierre Schaeffer, the French composer, had a purpose: to find a breach in the fortress of musical tradition 

Resonance:

1. The occurrence of a vibrating object causing another object to vibrate with a higher ampitude. Resonance occurs when the frequency of the initial object's vibration matches the resonant (natural) frequency of the second object.

2. The quality of a sound is deep, full, and reverberating 

Synchronicity: 

1. A term coined by psychologist Carl Jung, refers to the occurrence of meaningful coincidences that seem related but are not really 

2. Audio that lines up precisely with what's happening on the screen