How Music Transforms The Silver Screen
How Music Transforms The Silver Screen Enlarge this image toggle caption Steven Perilloux/Courtesy of the artist Steven Perilloux/Courtesy of the artist It was silence that got me thinking about music in the movies. In Silver Linings Playbook, pop songs direct much of the plot, with Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie Amour" playing a particularly pesky role in one character's arc. The best composers and song-selecting music supervisors highlight music's function as part of the autonomic system of daily life, influencing what happens and how we feel about it, even when we don't even hear it. Petra Haden evokes cinema music's mystical allure on her engrossing new album Petra Goes To the Movies. Haden's gift to us is the reminder that an art form primarily considered visual is as much, sometimes more, about what we hear — and how we interpret each film's so-called background music.
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