Description: This book explores the role of music and sound in experimental film from the earliest work of pioneers such as Walther Ruttmann to latter-day experiments with new and digital media. Chapters examine issues relating to the avant-garde, abstraction, animation, found footage, queer film, visual music and VJing.
Review Quotes: "A truly multidisciplinary volume where scholars in film studies, musicology, media studies, and sound studies not only appear side by side, but they also speak to each other as they unpack innovative techniques used to create novel and fascinating experiences of music, sound, and the moving image." -- Journal of Musicological Research
"The Music and Sound of Experimental Film is an excellent and much needed collection that assesses 'the experimental impulse' of the soundtrack. The editors have assembled a remarkably strong set of essays that considers the processes by which experimental sound reworks film and experimental film reworks the soundtrack. The result is an important collection that all scholars of the soundtrack will want on their bookshelf."-James Buhler, University of Texas at Austin