I developed this work at the Music School of UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais), during my Masters studies in the area of Sonology. 

 

This project took into account theoretical writings of several authors, including concepts from Pierre Schaeffer about what he calls "relay-arts" (arts such as Radio and Cinema), and about sound and listening, as well as ideas from Gilles Deleuze about image regimes, their relation with perception and types of cinema ("movement-image", "time-image", and subcategories of them). It also followed the practical attitude of Schaeffer in the discoveries of sounds through their registers, and of the creative possibilities of composition by the incorporation as a method itself of the logic and way of behaviour brought by the technical reprodutibility.

 

I tried myself to imitate this research, recording sounds, editing them, hearing to the material, thinking about what it afforded, rediscovering their sonic qualities. I then abandoned the collection of live sounds and started to edit other relay-arts previously manipulated as radio pieces, talkies, etc. Finally I opted to casually collect audio excerpts chosen from fourteen films whilst analysing their strict "sonority" within the "reduced listening" described by Schaeffer.

 

The result is the adjacent series of audio scenes or "sound frameworks", that was named "relay script".