ENCOUNTERING SOUND: THE MUSICAL DIMENSIONS OF SILENT CINEMA

Encountering sound: the musical dimensions of silent cinema

This article identifies silent film soundtracks as evidence of the tensions between old and new audiovisual cultures, and examines the distinctions between our experience of live and mediated cinema through contemporary modes of presentation.My primary machine-accessories interest is in the aesthetic and cultural dimensions of film sound, and the w

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Exceptional Illuminated Manuscripts at the Gulbenkian Museum: The Colors of a Bible and Three Gospels Produced in the Armenian Diaspora

The illuminated manuscripts at the Gulbenkian Museum were produced in the 17th century, in scriptoria of the Armenian Craft Knife diaspora.In this work, we selected analytical methods that can be used in situ to study the colors of the illuminations.Scientific analysis based on fiber-optics reflectance spectroscopy in the visible and Raman spectros

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