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ÉCRANS PARALLÈLESPRESTOEPThere are noises off and the cameraman spins round. During his sudden rotation, thecamera films the wings : the origin of a sound, the source of some music or backgroundnoise. Presto is a parallel screen dedicated to sound where the films exhibit their duration,their pace, their rhythm, their editing. The cinema deploys its fluctuations. After theemergence of the material in the programme From Sound to Image by Laurent Ghnassiain 2003 the field is now open to all activity. In his Dictionary of Music (1767), Jean-JacquesRousseau defined Presto as a rapid movement, more lively then Allegro and less serene incharacter. Less impassive, the attempt at recording admits the uncertainty of satisfactionin waiting. Does Orpheus see Eurydice again through such a movement?Preston Sturges has given a title to the turning of the camera: Unfaithfully Yours. Post-warcomedy or post-burlesque tragedy, the film reveals all the secrets of listening and placesthe musical drama on the same plane as a crime. From 1948 onwards, variations ofmisunderstandings spring out from the first scene to the last and leave the viewer fooled,groggy and dizzy.1948 was an important year in the sound world. It marked the birth of the tape recorderand the intense use of vinyl disc recorders. At several points, Sturges confronts his maincharacter (a conductor) with just such an invention: the BK6 model of the Presto brand.Tools necessary for the recording of material and the constitution of sound archivesappeared. In France, Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry introduced so-called concrete music,a prelude to what we now call, in a less defined way, electronic music. This invention isrelated to amplification, an electrical precedent indispensable for concerts and the cinema.151