Immersive Documentary "32 Sounds" Encourages Us to Feel the Noise

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🗓️ 24 July 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’ll talk to Green and his Oscar-winning sound designer, Mark Mangini, about how sound can literally move us. 32 Sounds will be screened at the Exploratorium on July 27, at the Smith Rafael Film Center July 28-30, the San Francisco Roxie Theater, July 29 and Berkeley’s Rialto Theater, July 30. Guests: Sam Green, filmmaker; his film,"32 Sounds" will be screened at the Exploratorium on July 27, at the Smith Rafael Film Center July 28-30, the San Francisco Roxie Theater, July 29 and Berkeley’s Rialto Theater, July 30. Mark Mangini, sound designer, "32 Sounds" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:14.6	There are certain sounds that come to mean something in our lives.
1:19.6	The foghorns of the bay, connecting us all to the sea and to the currents of human and economic movements around this world.
1:29.3	These kinds of sounds, their stories, and their relationship to memory, which is to say to time,
1:34.3	populate Sam Green's remarkable new film, 32 Sounds.
1:38.3	The title is an homage to the cult favorite 32 short films about Glenn Gould.
1:43.3	Green will be screening 32 sounds here in the Bay Area in the coming week,
1:47.0	and he joins us with his sound designer, Mark Mangini, right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Before any of us could see, before we were even properly human.
2:08.6	We existed in the womb and in that very first environment for us as organisms, there is a soundscape. Here it is. And as in human life, so it goes in Sam Green's new immersive documentary, 32 sounds.
2:32.3	We hear that womb scacape as the first sound.
2:36.0	I find something happens to me when I concentrate
2:38.7	on the different types of sounds around me.
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