Lecture at the international conference Sound On Screen, Oxford Brookes University
In some cases, a particular film genre is linked in the collective memory with an idiosyncratic compositional style; in other cases, conventionalized relationships of music to particular images call to mind - as is the case with Giuseppe Becce's musical settings of German-speaking Heimatfilme.
Gemeinsam mit Cornelia König (Kunstverein Baden) Konzeption und Durchführung des Live-Konzerts zum Stummfilm "Beethoven" (A, 1927) in Kooperation mit dem Reaktor Wien.
This project aims to contribute to the clarification of the concept of 'home' by showing how it is created in relation to media and pop music
and how it influences a sense of collective identity and social belonging. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the medium of film has proved to be an essential constructive element of 'home' in the German-speaking world. In the research literature on 'homeland' films and mountain films of Austrian/German film production, the important role of music in these films has so far been given little attention.
Publication
This book examines the musical performance practice of silent film in Germany in the 1920s and sheds light on the early attempts at a theory and aesthetics of film music. The starting point for the study is the "Allgemeine Handbuch der Film-Musik" from 1927. Thereby, the genesis of film music conventions will be explored as well as the intermedial relationship between silent film music and music-aesthetic traditions.
