In the Universal World, when we are talking about Montage, we are basically talking about film. It is very closely related to editing, but let’s take it from the start. What is montage, and why it has such an important part in the way the modern world communicates ideas?

Montage: “The production of a rapid succession of images in a motion picture to illustrate an association of ideas.”

— > ( Source : http://courses.washington.edu/ger370/filmguide.htm , Glossary of Film Terms )

Without a mixture and a coalition of different ideas, it would be just editing. During the session, 5 methods of montage were highlighted:

1. Metric
2. Rhythmic
3. Tonal
4. Overtonal
5. Intellectual

Here is a link written by Matrix Education, in which all 5 types of Montage are explained, along with an example, and the effect that they wanted to get from their audience.

–> https://www.matrix.edu.au/film-techniques-montage/

During this session, we analysed a variety of musical compositions, made by many different artists , which also came from different backgrounds, each one having their own style. Some musical pieces like “Twinkle twinkle little star ” , a poem written by Jane Taylor, have a structure, although opinions during the session varied. On the other hand, musical pieces like Presque Rien (‘Almost Nothing’) by Luc Ferrari , who recorded the sounds of nature and every-day life in his village , then picked the best parts and merged them together . Overall, this is what music is about. Diversity, mix of cultures, no limits and the message that an artist is trying to give to the audience .

Music is everywhere, playing in the backround of your local grocery store, in your favorite club, while you are having a meal in a restaurant, inside your own personal mobile device and your own computer. Music, cannot be measured or having limitations, which is a topic that can heat up an ambitious debate. It is difficult to understand how quickly music – along with culture – is evolving each day , due to its rapid changes. If we take back the time to the previous century, one can say that there has been a crazy evolving “revolution” of how music is created, perceived and industrialized, all around the globe.

I am Konstantinos Papanestoros, 20 years old, coming from a hot island located in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, called Cyprus! Currently an undergraduate student at De Montfort University, studying Music Technology (BASc). Having big goals, big dreams!