Forum From the Archives: Immersive Documentary “32 Sounds” Encourages Us to Feel the Noise

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🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The hushed thrum of the womb. The warble of the last living species of a now-extinct bird. The fury and thrust of a jet engine in flight. These are some of the sounds that populate filmmaker Sam Green’s immersive documentary “32 Sounds.” The movie is not just a collection of sounds, but rather a meditation on the strange power that sound has on us, whether it is voices, music, the natural world or sounds that we are trying to tune out. Watching the movie, even on a tiny screen, can be a full-body experience in which you’re encouraged by Green, who narrates the film, to feel the sound. We’re bringing this segment out of the Forum archives as 32 Sounds returns to Bay Area theaters later this month for more screenings at: Roxie Theater, San Francisco, Oct. 28 Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, Berkeley, Oct. 29 Rialto Cinemas Sebastopol, Sebastopol, Oct. 30 Guests: Sam Green, filmmaker, "32 Sounds" Mark Mangini, Sound designer, "32 Sounds." Magini has won two Oscars in sound design for his work on the movies "Dune" and "Mad Max Fury Road. He has received multiple Academy Award nominations for his sound design work on films including, "Blade Runner 2049" and "Star Treks I, IV and V." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.6	Sam Green's immersive documentary, 32 Sounds, is not just a collection of sounds, but a meditation
1:20.6	on the relationship of audio to time and memory. It's about the convincing lies of movie sound
1:26.6	and the unbelievable truth of death. It's now the convincing lies of movie sound and the unbelievable truth of death.
1:29.3	It's now generating Oscar buzz and it returns to the Bay Area later this month at several local theaters.
1:35.3	So, we're bringing you a special from the archives edition of the show this morning.
1:39.3	We talked with Sam Green and his Oscar-winning sound designer Mark Mangini about how sound can literally move us.
1:47.1	That's all coming up next after this news.
1:59.2	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Before any of us could see, before we were even properly human, we existed in the womb and in that very first environment for us as organisms, there is a soundscape. Here it is.
2:30.0	And as in human life, so it goes in Sam Green's new immersive documentary, 32 sounds. We hear that boomscape as the first sound.
2:33.4	I find something happens to me when I concentrate on the different types of sounds around me,
2:38.0	when I bring the subconscious, constantly flowing into our ears and being
2:43.0	transduced into electrical signals for our brains to parse and for our hearts to remember.
2:48.0	When I make all that conscious, I can be transported.
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