{"id":582,"date":"2011-12-06T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/?p=582"},"modified":"2022-10-20T21:46:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T19:46:33","slug":"enthousiasme-la-symphonie-du-donbass-1931-de-dziga-vertov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/enthousiasme-la-symphonie-du-donbass-1931-de-dziga-vertov\/","title":{"rendered":"ENTHOUSIASME, LA SYMPHONIE DU DONBASS de Dziga Vertov (1931)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The text and video excerpt below document the book by Philippe Langlois, Les cloches d\u2019Atlantis, musique \u00e9lectroacoustique et cin\u00e9ma arch\u00e9ologie et histoire d\u2019un art sonore,<\/em> <\/a>\u00e9ditions mf, Paris, first quarter 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass,<\/em> by Dziga Vertov<\/a> is not only the first Ukrainian film, it is also the first film to feature a revolutionary treatment of sound in 1930, based on sound manipulation on an optical medium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1930, the Soviet scientist Alexandre Chorine designed for Vertov a sound recording apparatus \u201cmanageable\u201d enough to \u201cwalk and run\u201d in the street. After a year of study, the first mobile synchronous sound-film station was put into operation in Leningrad. It weighed more than a tonne and had no listening device, so that the directors walked \u201cdeaf\u201d, unable to check the quality of the recording. A large part of the sound recordings made by Vertov was unusable because of vibrations that saturated the recording, but the machine noises captured in the Donbass could be used in synchronous sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dziga Vertov does not use just any noise. There is choice, selection, both thematic and qualitative. As with the images, these noises are the expression of a new ruling class. They represent and symbolise the victory of a new world that erases the old world and covers it with its intense dynamism. In the same way, in the unfolding of the film, factory sirens succeed the sound of bells, the collapse of bell towers gives way to industrial construction. It is henceforth the noises of labour and the factory sirens that set the rhythm of daily time, that impose their scansion, their new order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n