A Sonic Pulse: The deaf experience of electronic music | Resident Advisor

How do deaf people experience electronic music? Dorothy Allen-Pickard and Antoine Marinot explore that question in our latest film.

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Electronic music is a multi-sensory experience: what we feel coming out of the speaker stack in a nightclub can be just as profound as what we hear. In this film, we learn about three deaf people's clubbing experiences, which range from transcendental to discriminatory, and witness a deaf musical workshop in which participants manipulate and respond to electronic sounds and frequencies. Richard France, a deaf music producer, talks about losing himself to the beat and the crowd becoming one on the dance floor. Troi Lee speaks of the first time he was refused entry to a club for using sign language in the queue. Helen describes how her cochlear implant inspired the sounds behind some of her electronic tracks.

"We listen to a lot of electronic music, both in and outside of club environments," said Antoine Marinot, who co-directed the film with Dorothy Allen-Pickard. "Because of my partial deafness, and the prospect of losing my hearing completely, I am increasingly aware of issues relating to deafness. The conversations we had while making this film have infinitely expanded our interest in the subject and reframed our conceptual understanding of how we all experience sound, music and vibrations."

A Sonic Pulse was commissioned by Resident Advisor Films in partnership with Open City Documentary Festival:

DIRECTED BY
Dorothy Allen-Pickard
Antoine Marinot

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PRODUCED BY
Ruth Sweeney

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INTERVIEWEES
Helen Oakley
Troi Lee
Richard France

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WORKSHOP LEADER
Ruth Montgomery
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
Robert Heads
Martin Glover
Anastasia Aston
NIGHTCLUBBERS
Kevin John
Sarah Dodson Choudhary
Sindhuya Saseetharan

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DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Alfred Thirolle
EDITOR
Jan Rybak
COLOURIST
Myles Bevan
SOUND DESIGNER
Ben Hauke
Pitch and Sync Studios
SOUND RECORDIST
Ollie Drummond

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CREW
Jon Muschamp | Camera Operator
Julian Lalinde | 1st AC
Courtney Andrews | 2nd AC
Jamie Legge | Gaffer
Sean Ewins | Colourist Producer
Harri McKenzie Donovan | BSL Interpreter
Leo Sefi | Production Assistant

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LOCATIONS
XOYO
Brixton Community Base
Gowlett Road

EQUIPMENT
Arri Rental
Direct Digital
Procam
Kodak

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MUSIC
Kevin Over "Penthouse Boogie"
© 2018 [Madhouse Records]
Ben Hauke "Right One"
© 2019 [Nervous Records]
Ben Hauke "Acid, One"
© 2019 [Woop Records]
Ben Hauke "HiFi"
© 2010 [Woop Records]

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SPECIAL THANKS TO
Patrick Nation and the Resident Advisor team, Chloe Trayner, Jess Franses,
Ollie Wright and everyone at Open City Documentary Festival, Alice Whittemore, Bradley Zero and Rythm Section, Fabian Phipps and staff at XOYO, Jane Duncan Ribeiro & Caroline Funnell at Brixton Community Base, Rhys Allen, Kevin Over and
Tom Jay at Madhouse Records, Bonnie Anthony, Jamie Clark and Aleksandra Bilic
at My Accomplice, Camille Brayer and Ole Mienert at Direct Digital, Simon Surtees
and Gema Beasley at Arri Rental, for archival footage Kevin Smalley at Getty Images and Troi Lee at Deafrave, Sean Ewins and Myles Bevan at Time Based Arts,
Karolina Lisowska and Linda Pederson at Kodak and Ed Cliff.
And a special thank you to all of our participants.

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A SONIC PULSE is funded by Resident Advisor and Open City Documentary Festival with
the generous support of Arri Rental, Direct Digital, Kodak, Time Based Arts, My Accomplice, Madhouse Records, Getty Images, Deafrave, XOYO and Brixton Community Base.

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