The film composer trading in the craft of musical composition may perceive the chaotic cacophony of the film soundtrack too threatening and oppressive to a score. A sound artist contemplating poetic and philosophical tangents of acoustic phenomenae may be aesthetically repulsed by the ungainly mix of ocular titillation and sheer sonic sensationalism in blockbuster cinema. But film sound is all of the above perceptual streams and more. Film sound crazily manifests itself in a series of dimensional slashes across industrial concerns, star systems, monetary perimeters, symbolic histories, cliche terrains and experimental spikes. Every film presents its own one-off rule book on how sound might occur, for its soundtrack is uncontrolled and uncontrollable.
Film sound is where the sonic grows moist in the darkness of consciously privileged images.
It's a book. By H. G. Wells, no less. And there's another one. It's a movie. Made last year.