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The Mute Gesture: Musical Reconfigurations through the Comic's Affordances in Glenn Gould: A Life Off Tempo by Sandrine Revel

No. 37 (2026-01-05)
  • Julio Gutiérrez
    Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile
https://doi.org/10.25025/perifrasis202617.37.03

Abstract

The present article aims to review the resources and methods employed in comic narratology to readjust aspects of musical sound discourse. Through the examination of the concept of remediation, it seeks to demonstrate the versatility of the media affordances of comics to adapt to different languages, media, and semiotic systems. Considering that the sequential medium cannot reproduce sound, it will be shown that through visuality, closure, and other resources inherent to comics, musical discourse can be reconstructed in a manner intrinsic to graphic sequentiality.

Keywords: comic, remediation, narratology, semiotics, semiosphere, music, Sandrine Revel, media affordances

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