Wild Sound

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Michael Pigott (Associate Professor of Video Art and Digital Media, University of Warwick, UK)

Wild Sound

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ISBN: 9781501350917

Michael Pigott (Associate Professor of Video Art and Digital Media, University of Warwick, UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic
19 February 2026

Film movie production: technical skills; Theory of music & musicology; Musicals; Acoustic & sound engineering

Series: The Study of Sound

Bringing concepts from early film theory into dialogue with the vibrant field of contemporary sound studies, Wild Sound turns an analytic eye and ear to the role of the soundscape in cinema, particularly the way that film soundtracks capture, create, represent, and even critique our sonic environment.

Listening beyond music and dialogue, this book draws attention to the oft-ignored background soundscape—film's ""wild sound""—which plays a quiet but substantial role in determining how film audiences feel about certain places, people, and processes. It explores the relationship between location sound and wider practices of phonographic field recording in the creation of a cinematic sonic environment.

The latter half of the book shifts attention from the controlled soundscapes of cinema to the relatively chaotic sonic environments of the world around us. Michael Pigott ultimately demonstrates how a theory of cinematic soundscapes helps us develop practical strategies for investigating the sonic environment in our personal and natural sound worlds, beyond the cinema auditorium.

By: Michael Pigott (Associate Professor of Video Art and Digital Media University of Warwick UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9781501350917
ISBN 10: 1501350919
Series: The Study of Sound
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 19 February 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Pigott is Associate Professor of Video Art and Digital Media at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Joseph Cornell Versus Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2013).