What's ringing, scratching, rustling in the film? Since films were first shown in 1895, they have been accompanied by sounds and music. A sound track collects sounds, music and noise. Before ourselves experimenting with sounds and noise and coming up with ideas for a sound track for Marie Menken's DWIGHTIANA (USA 1959) that we will eventually perform live, we will find out what can be seen and heard in six shorts: A small boy dreams in VALSE TRISTE by Bruce Conner (USA 1979), SUSAN THROUGH CORN (Kathleen Laughlin, USA 1974) shows a woman walking through the cornfields and EARLY ABSTRACTIONS (Excerpt, Harry Smith, USA 1933–56) depicts shapes and movements of light. In Buster Keaton's THE BALLOONATIC (Excerpt, USA 1923), we are suddenly flying in a balloon and in Joyce Wieland's SAILBOAT (Canada 1968) we hear the sea. (em) (13.3.
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