MMeO. radio.
At work, I listen to a lot of podcasts - seminars, education, and NPR. This American Life is without a doubt my favorite show. I love its cadence. And since it's only on once a week, I end up listening to the best of the best multiple times. My favorite story is about a physicist who spends his entire life trying to figure out time travel so that he can protect his dad from an early death by heart attack.I love the voices in that episode. The voices. They have this clarity - its the safe remove from the emotion of the actual events. It allows us to follow the story on our own path. We can connect to it through our own experiences. The story about the physicist usually makes me cry. And I'm always thinking about something in my own life.
I'm not sure, because I don't know much about story-telling or radio/voice art, but I wonder if it is because of the medium that I can connect on a personal level, just a bit more self-involved than with film.
I think I'll explore that next.
Labels: MMeO
posted by e m p @ 10:32 PM
3 Comments:
Is the unique single sensory input nature of radio that which makes it specially able to tap the audience in such profound ways? Books too, in that case? I think it's something to do with the fact that we're left to imagine so much for ourselves in order to engage in the experience. So many other art forms do so much more of the work for us- but with radio you have to pay close attention, so that makes us extra attuned to it...
definitely there's something to that.
I'm also intrigued by the specific something in the voice - especially as an artist whose work is largely visual or whole-body experiential. Perhaps more significantly, sound has never been a strong contributing factor in my process - even in pieces where it was a strong factor in the final work. Thus, the voice offers a special "fill-in-the-blank" experience for me that is part evidence and part my imagination, in a richer and more limiting way than literature, where all of the imagination I supply is contained within the sights and sounds of my inner mind, and therefore also pulled from my catalog of experience. With radio, I have just that much more new information to change or challenge or confirm what I already imagine to be reality -- or fantasy.
I have read some of your posts. I liked the same and would like to read more from you.
If you like short stories and paintings, then a short visit to my blogs would be an entertaining one.
Naval Langa
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
< Home