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Foley Sound: New Theories and Approaches
  • ISSN: 1751-4193
  • E-ISSN: 1751-4207

Abstract

In this article, sound artist Julie Rose Bower examines the relationship between the Foley ‘cloth pass’ and the ‘fabric sounds’ autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) trigger. Starting with Serres’s sensory appraisal that ‘the world is a mass of laundry’ the tactile qualities of cloth are proposed as a key component in accounting for the ‘felt rather than heard’ status of Foley sound. Writing from a practitioner perspective, Bower argues for textile manipulation as a form of embodied sound design and cloth sounds as a curiously generative media object. Through theorizing developments in the scope of attention within screen cultures, Bower develops a speculative ontology of and conceptualizes a politics of . Alongside accounts of sound practice from industry Foley artists Vanessa Theme Ament (), Joanna Fang (Sony PlayStation) and from her own ASMR work using costume and textiles ( for the Victoria and Albert Museum [V&A]), Bower argues for cloth sounds as transcendent cyberfeminist technique.

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