Ruth Dockwray

Biographic Data

ID1450160
NAMERuth Dockwray
GIVEN NAMESRuth
FAMILY NAMEDockwray
SIGNATUREDOCKWRAY R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Chester
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS15
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX2

  • Experimental Sound Mixing for The Well , a Short Film Made for Tablets

    Karen Collins, Ruth DockwrayARTICLELeonardo Music Journal2018

    This article presents an overview of the use of binaural recording and experimental headphone mixing for a short film. Drawing loosely on theories of proxemics, the article illustrates how sound mixing can be used to create a unique subjective perspective. In particular, the authors sought to experiment with and to use the peculiarities of stereo headphone mixing and binaural sound to reinforce visual elements of a film designed for horizontal vi…

  • Experimental Sound Mixing for “The Well”, a Short Film Made for Tablets

    Karen Collins, Ruth DockwrayARTICLELeonardo2016References: 1

    This article presents an overview of the use of binaural recording and experimental headphone mixing for a short film. Drawing loosely on theories of proxemics, the article illustrates how sound mixing can be used to create a unique subjective perspective. In particular, the authors sought to experiment with and to use the peculiarities of stereo headphone mixing and binaural sound to reinforce visual elements of a film designed for horizontal vi…

  • Sonic Proxemics and the Art of Persuasion: An Analytical Framework

    Karen Collins, Ruth DockwrayARTICLELeonardo Music Journal2015

    This paper introduces a framework for the creation and analysis of sonic spatialization and proxemics in audiovisual media. The authors apply the framework to three public service announcements to show how sonic proxemics can be used as a rhetorical device that may be used to strengthen political aims

  • Configuring the sound-box 1965-1972

    Open AccessRuth Dockwray, A F MooreARTICLEPopular Music2010Cited by: 10References: 8

    When a stereophonic track is heard through headphones or over loudspeakers, the image of a virtual performance is created in the mind. This virtual performance, which exists exclusively on the record, can be conceptualised in terms of the 'sound-box' (Moore 1993), a four-dimensional virtual space within which sounds can be located through: lateral placement within the stereo field; foreground and background placement due to volume and distortion;…

  • A Hermeneutics of Spatialization for Recorded Song

    Open AccessAllan F Moore, Patricia L Schmidt et al.ARTICLEtwentieth-century music2009Cited by: 5References: 5

    This article is one of a series exploring the spatialization of sound sources in recorded songs and how they may be understood (see also ‘The Virtual Performance Space in Rock’, twentieth-century music 5/2). Its theoretical basis is multi-faceted, utilizing notions of ecological perception, of the sound-box, of the singer's persona, and of interpersonal distance in communication, as well as further concepts from cognitive science. It focuses part…