Anempathetic sound
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Anempathetic sound in a film is the opposite of empathetic sound: it consists of music or sound effects that exhibit an indifference to the current tone, emotion, or plot-point of the film. This type of sound can thereby enhance a sense of the tragic, as when a radio continues to play a happy tune when a character dies, or in Hitchcock's Psycho the continued sound of the shower running after Marion Crane has been killed, as if nothing has happened. [1]
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Chion, Michael (1994). Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 8-9. ISBN 978-0231078993. http://books.google.com/books?id=is_HyxAyMkMC&lpg=PP1&dq=audio%20vision&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=audio%20vision&f=false.
