Bela Belazs Response

Balazs makes very interesting observations about the nature of sound films in her article; as she puts it, the world’s sounds comprise a symphony of noise we aren’t trained to take the time to notice. Because of our visual association with sounds, deeply rooted into our mind’s concepts of them, we are usually unable to divorce them from the actual sensation of audibly perceiving it. Balazs also made an interesting note about how visuals and sounds can work together in less traditional uses: for example, she describes how showing a composer’s facial expressions in juxtaposition with the music weaving into the air can cast light on the music itself, in that it gives us a different way to interpret it.