Podcast about the sounds of silents

An excellent podcast about music for silent films. Eric Dienstfrey talks with Rick Altman. Nice introduction mentioning our research:

http://phantompod.org/2019/11/01/ep-17-the-sounds-of-silents/

 

Silent Film Music: A Bibliography

A Bibliography compiled by Hans Jürgen Wulff and myself was published. You can download the pdf for free here:

http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/Medien/berichte/arbeiten/0149_13.pdf

Filme als Cue Sheets erschienen

Die Kieler Beiträge sind soeben erschienen und beinhalten den Artikel „Filme als Cue Sheets“ von Claus Tieber und Filmmusikquellen in der Fachzeitschrift Moving Picture Word von Anna Katharina Windisch.

Silent Film Sound: The Program

Here’s the program of the upcoming conference in Kiel on 22 and 23.2.2013:

Music and the Moving Image NYC – Tagungsbericht

Anna Windisch hat auf der Website der Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft einen Tagungsbericht zum Kongress Music and the Moving Image veröffentlicht, der jährlich in New York stattfindenden Tagung zur Film- und Medienmusik.

Silent Film Sound: Conference Language will be English

Due to the amount of international presenters the conference language will be English. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause and look forward to further proposals until October 15th.

Silent Cinema Musicans

An interesting article appeared in the San Franscico Classical Voice: pianist Stephen Horns talks about his experiences in years of accompanying silent films.

CfP: Silent Film Sound Deadline: October 15

We apologize for an error that occured in some of the communicated calls for the Kiel conference about Silent Film Sound. The deadline for proposals is not June 30, but October 15.

Blog Coverage: The Bioscope

Our Call for Papers for the Kiel conference in February 2013 gets recognized soon. The web’s best blog on Silent Cinema, The Bioscope is reporting: http://thebioscope.net/2012/06/07/silent-film-sound/

CfP: International Conference Silent film sound: history, theory and practice

Friday 22 – Saturday 23 February 2013
Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany
in collaboration with Kiel Society for Film Music Research
We are pleased to invite proposals for papers in the broad theme “Silent film sound: history, theory and practice”, to be presented at a conference of the same name on February 22 – 23 at the Christian Albrechts University Kiel.