film music terminology

Acousmatic sound
sound one hears without seeing their originating cause  
Acousmêtre
- akind of invisible voice-character with mysterious powers  
Added Value
- the expressive and/or informative value with which a sound enriches a image 
Audiovisual Contract
- an agreement to forget that sound is coming from loudspeakers and picture from screen   
Anempathetic Sound
music or sound effects that seems to exhibit conspicuous indifference to what is goingon in the film's plot 
Chronography  
-  the stabilisation of projection speedmadecinema an art of time  
Empathetic Sound
music or sound effects whose mood matches the mood of the action 
Extension(of SoundSpace) 
External logic
- the logic by which the flow of sound includes effects of discontinuity as nondiegetic interventions  
Internal logic
- the logic by which the sound flow is apparently born out of the narrative situation itself   
Magnetization (spatial)
-  "mental pan" of the sound source 
Materializing Sound Indices (M. S. I.) 
- sonic details that "materialize" the sound source 
Rendering
the use of sounds to convey the feelings or effects associated with the situation on screen
Synchresis
the mental fusion between a sound and a visual when these occur at exactly the same time   
Temporalization
- influence of sound on the perception of time in the image 
Vococentrism
- the privilige of the voicein audiovisual media 

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