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Jour de fête

Jacques Tati, 1948

Published on by Philippe Langlois

The text and the video excerpt below document Philippe Langlois’s book, Les cloches d’Atlantis, Musique électroacoustique et cinéma, Archéologie et histoire d’un art sonore, éditions mf, Paris, 2012.

Image of the work Jour de fête, Jacques Tati, 1948.

Numerous examples attest to this integration of noises into music, as for example the sounds of nature and of the tractor that fuse with Jean Yatove’s music after the credits of Jour de fête (1948) by Jacques Tati  – after the 1961 sound re-editing on magnetic tape.