Sound with Dana Bunescu: the House and the Home

The workshop I propose aims to evaluate the cinematic potential of sound, rarely explored to the last consequences of the construct. With care to avoid generalizations, I can say that most of the time the soundtrack in cinema remains or is actually reduced to an explanatory function, from the family of confirmations of the statements made by the image editing. This comes from various reasons. One of them, at least in Romania, seems to be the not at all privileged situation of the audio construction stage. Generally, after filming, in which the emphasis is most often placed on the needs of the image, without additional preparation of the sound recording conditions reduced to those of an acceptable dialogue recording, the questions related to sound end. Just as the editing and colorization will have ended. And the energy and interest and finances. Another reason seems to be the invasiveness of sound capture equipment in general. It cannot be denied that in the field of accessibility and diversification of audio recording instruments, be they microphones, recorders or audio monitors, consistent progress has been made, but this comes with a vulnerability, namely that of visibility and the function of disrupting the systems to be researched in the case of documentary film. In the case of fiction film, the facility of multi-channel audio recordings most often comes with the absence of a philosophy or aesthetics of the soundtrack and implicitly with a simplification of the role that sound has in the film. A third reason comes from the lack of appetite for listening to the soundscape that we inhabit, visit, experience every day. With headphones on, modern man replaces the exploration of the space he travels with loud music, podcasts or audiobooks, refusing to understand the role and causes of acoustics that have such a decisive effect on the way the individual is emotionally shaped. If we can't talk about finances because we don't have the skills, we could talk about everything else. And we could also invent a sound exercise that would start from recording, continue with editing, adding pre-recorded elements, preferably by students, to arrive at an audio narrative closely related to a frame that they choose from one of the films they've made. It sounds like a plan.

In this seminar, we will explore the concepts of the house and the home through sound, listening closely how one becomes the other and where they diverge. 

Zusätzliche Termine/additional meetings: Montag, 29.06.2026, 10:00 - 13:00 Tonstudio 29.06-02.07.2026: one-on-one meetings, consultation on editing and sound design of individual projects.