<p> The music of Scott Walker (b. Noel Scott Engel, January 9, 1943) continues to influence multiple generations of respected figures in popular music from David Bowie to Radiohead, yet Walker has not set foot on stage to perform since the 1970s. Instead, the singer-songwriter-producer's latter-day reputation has instead thrived upon the basis of his recorded works. Following a radical self re-invention on the Walker Brothers' farewell album <i>Nite Flights </i> (1978) Walker has pushed the boundaries of his chosen media to the extent that his recorded tracks belong more to the aesthetic sphere of fixed art forms such as films rather than performance-oriented forms such as music as it is traditionally categorized among the liberal arts. In the same manner that Sergei Eisenstein and Orson Welles abandoned the rules of theatrical formalism to create works native to the cinematic medium itself, Walker has likewise approached his work in recording studios as a Phonographic Auteur. To abstract Walker's works by discussing them as "songs" detached from their recorded "track" form would be as detrimental to their analysis as would the discussion of <i>Citizen Kane</i> outside of the form language of the cinema. As deconstructions of the binary opposition between track and song the problems surrounding the analysis of Walker's post-1978 works are largely those confronting the analysis of Euro-American popular music that arise from its troublesome relationship with the recorded format. Further, Walker's career evidences how a number of artists in Euro-american contexts have come to regard the recorded, studio intensive format of music as a solution to the problems they are confronted within the the modern public concert spectacle. In doing so these individuals have given birth to a burgeoning autonomous art form, and by extension, a new model of the composer-listener-performer dynamic.</p>

<p> Film d'Art, the French production company responsible for the development of Henri Lav&eacute;dan's <i>L'Assassinat du Duc de Guise</i> (1908), demonstrated a forward-thinking vision for film and music. Through their innovations, the company combined many elements of cinematography with new standards for quality productions. This project report will investigate the goals of Film d'Art and its unusually high ambitions, standard music practices in the silent film era, the issues revolving around the instrumentation to Saint-Sa&euml;ns' score to Henri Lav&eacute;dan's<i> L'Assassinat de Duc de Guise</i> (1908), and the performance of my arrangement in a graduate recital.</p>

Esse texto é fruto da investigação sobre o uso do som e da música no filme experimental latino-americano, especificamente, nos concentramos nas experiências e conexões realizadas pelos cineastas Glauber Rocha (Pátio, 13 min, 1959) e Hugo Santiago (Invasión, 129 min, 1969) com músicos experimentais para criarem as trilhas sonoras de seus filmes. Distintos tanto em duração quanto no modo de tratamento dos materiais sonoros, os dois filmes apresentam uma montagem sonora que se utilizou de resquícios de sons concretos e músicas experimentais pré-existentes, provocando estremecimentos na forma geometrizada e racional trazida pelas bandas imagéticas dos filmes. / This text is the result of an inquiry into the usage of sound and music in the Latin American experimental film. The foccus is more especifically on the experiences and connections made by the filmmakers Glauber Rocha (Pátio, 1959) and Hugo Santiago (Invasión, 1969) with experimental musicians to create the soundtracks for their films. Although the films are distinct in both the duration and in the treatment mode of sound materials, they present a sound assembly that used remnants of concrete sounds and preexisting experimental music that lead to shudders in the geometrized and rational form brought by the imagery bands of the films.