During my 5 years of research into auditory spatial awareness, which is discussed in my book Spaces Speak, Are You Listening? Experiencing Aural Architecture, I examined the acoustics and aural properties of real and virtual spaces from antiquity to modern cinema. I was looking for both consistent patterns and well as culturally specific variants. Certainly, cinema has some examples of the most creative use of spatial concepts. Not only is there there combination of aural and visual spaces, but the audience experiences multiple spaces overlaid. With the use of surround sound, aural events can be located deep in the scene on screen or behind the listener, as in an airplane flyover or enveloping reverberation for music. There are obviously a very large range of choices. In my research, I was unable to find much literature on the formalism of these artistic choices, and how the director makes his/her choices. Does anyone know of books or articles that analyze these choices and their artistic consequences? Or perhaps, the use of aural space in cinema is still too new to have settled into a consistent wisdom. I am familiar with Chion's book Audio-Vision, and there is a large literature on Fantasia, which pioneered aural space in cinema. I would like to extend my analysis, but without the necessary experience and expertise, I depend upon those who are professionally active is this area. Because the book is so interdisciplinary, integrating some dozen fields, I could not become an expert on all of them. Information about my book, where these issues are discussed, can be found at the MIT Press web at: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10947 and I can provide copies of the Introduction and Table of Contents if you send me an email requesting them. Barry Blesser (former MIT Prof) [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu