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It’s so dramatic.”īut halfway into the final mix for Blade Runner 2049, Mangini phoned Bartlett to tell him that the legal department said they couldn’t use any of those sounds from the original film. That Vegas walk had another score with it, but we kept stripping it away until we were down to just those drum hits. Then you can hear those big drum hits in the Vegas walk. Actually, they’re the first sound in the movie. Bartlett used those drum hits as punctuation throughout the film, for scene changes and transitions. It was very immersive that way.”īartlett notes that initially there were sounds from the original Blade Runner in their mix, like huge drum hits from the original score that were converted into 7.1 versions by supervising sound editor Mark Mangini at Formosa Group. “I played with the spatial aspects, spreading certain elements into the room to envelope you into the score. “We featured those synth sounds throughout the movie,” says Bartlett. His preference gravitated toward the analog synth sounds, like the Yamaha CS-80, which composer Vangelis used in his 1982 Blade Runner composition. He and Villeneuve went through a wealth of musical elements - all of which were separated so Villeneuve could pick the ones he liked. It was about filling out the score, using all the elements in Hans Zimmer’s and Ben Wallfisch’s arsenal there,” says Bartlett, who handled the dialogue and music in the mix. “That was our benchmark for the biggest, most enveloping sound sequence - without being harsh or loud. The first time K (Ryan Gosling) arrives in Los Angeles in the film, the audience is blasted with a Vangelis-esque score that is reminiscent of the original Blade Runner, and that was ultimately the goal there - to envelope the audience in the Blade Runner experience. His research is funded by the UCL Overseas Research Scholarship, The Graduate Research Scholarship, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.L-R: Ron Bartlett, Denis Villeneuve, Joe Walker, Ben Wallfisch and Doug Hemphill.

Jonathan is currently undertaking a PhD at The Bartlett School of Architecture where he is also contextual theory tutor in Design for Manufacture MArch and Design for Performance + Interaction MArch. Prior to this he worked extensively with Philip Beesley on the Hylozoic Series, developing specialised experience in interactive system design, digital fabrication, and component design while leading complex installations at major art festivals across North America, Europe, and Asia

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He was an associate at Dereck Revington Studio in Toronto, where he led a series of award-winning public art projects and memorials from conception through to fabrication. Jonathan Tyrrell studied architecture at the University of Waterloo in Canada where he also taught as an adjunct professor from 2013-2020. Using disability studies and posthumanism as conceptual and ethical frameworks it asks: how can a deaf perspective suggest new modes of engagement with the mediated soundscape? How might this approach improve soundscapes and spaces more broadly? Employing a practice-led methodology that merges architecture, industrial design, unconventional field recording, and sound art, it proposes a series of built prototypes that engage the present soundscape in non-normative ways.

This research questions the assumption that hearing disability, and other non-normative forms of listening, are inherent limitations to engaging with the sonic/spatial environment.

This position not only excludes those with deafness and hearing loss - relegating them to architecture’s acoustic shadow - it fails to recognise the ways in which inductive hearing loops, cochlear implants, and other technologies are fundamentally altering the soundscapes of the built environment. However, within architectural discourse on sound there exists a strong ableist bias, assuming that only individuals with normative human hearing can fully participate in the soundscapes that surround them. In contrast to visual modes of architectural analysis which tend to emphasise delineations and boundaries, sonic modes foreground relationality, continuity, and spatial interconnection. This thesis takes the acoustic shadow as a technical and metaphorical framework to explore zones of sonic exclusion in the contemporary city. Conversely, the acoustic shadow can create ruptures in spatial orientation which have resulted in critical misjudgements during times of war.

This principle underpins ultrasonic medical imaging where meaning is created out of the variable obstruction of hi-frequency sound waves through the body. The acoustic shadow is a zone of exclusion through which sound fails to travel. Architecture’s Acoustic Shadow: Non-normative Approaches to Sound, Matter, and Space.