Terror Tracks - Music, Sound and Horror Cinema - Philip Hayward
Texas Chainsaws: Audio Effect and Iconicity
Terror Tracks - Music, Sound and Horror Cinema - Philip Hayward
Rebecca † Coyle [+]
Formerly, Southern Cross University
Rebecca Coyle published on screen music and sound in a number of journals and books, including two anthologies on Australian feature film music. She was the editor of Screen Sound, the Australasian Journal of Soundtrack Studies and on the editorial board for such international journals as Convergence and Music and the Moving Image. She taught in the Media programme at Southern Cross University, Australia, until her death in November 2012.
Philip Hayward [+]
Southern Cross Univeristy
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Philip Hayward has taught film and popular music studies in Australia and the United Kingdom and is Professor and Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor (Research) at Southern Cross University, Australia. His previous books include Off The Planet: Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema (2004) and he is a performer in an avant garde chainsaw quartet performing work written by composer Michael Hannan.
Description
This chapter looks at how the chainsaw and its distinctive sounds do not so much provide the core horror moments in Texas Chainsaw Massacre as complement and crystallize a broader set of audiovisual impressions that engender it. In particular, the films suspense and shock sequences are graphically rendered through a series of intense and sonically inventive sound sequences that draw on pre-recorded music, score, human vocalization and skilfully blended sound effects.