Remixing Wong Kar-wai: Music, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Oblivion

Remixing Wong Kar-wai is a poetic, wide-ranging evocation of cult filmmaker Wong Kar-wai's modus operandi. Dubbed once the "best ear in the industry," Wong Kar-wai crafts the soundtracks of his films by jettisoning original scores in favor of commercial recordings. Remixing Wong Kar-wai examines the combinatorial practice at the heart of Wong’s cinema to retheorize musical borrowing, appropriation, and repurposing in Hong Kong cinema and beyond. In this book talk, author Giorgio Biancorosso will discuss the ways in which we can restore listening to the center of film studies — and oblivion to that of culture.

Giorgio Biancorosso’s work investigates the boundaries of music and sound in the theater, cinema and digital media. He is the author of Situated Listening: The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Remixing Wong Kar Wai: Music, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Oblivion (Duke University Press, 2024). Biancorosso is the…