The Sound of Old Media

Abstract

In the field of hand-made film, sound and music are a limited part of the media due to the character of the medium; there are only a few sound tracks with poor quality. Hand-made film may be considered ‘old media’ or ‘traditional media’ that are not as popular today due to the spread of digital technologies. However, the limited character of this medium and the low quality of the sound tracks become a very attractive and creative limitation for the author’s recent works. She discusses two recent works for experimental film and sound, The Thin Black Line (2007) and flowing_water (2008) which explore how the limitation of media allows expansion of the sonic and visual arts.