Noise for Airports

a blog about culture, sound, music, and technology.

updated occasionally by Nick Seaver.

“I came across something that really interested me. This was the idea of ‘reality’ in live broadcasting. If we’re actually at an event, what we hear will probably be very different from what the audience at home hears. At the event we might hear little more than the crowds around us, whereas the TV audience will be delivered a manufactured soundtrack created from many elements, just as it is in a drama or a film. As Dennis Baxter says: ‘It’s about creating exciting entertainment, whatever that takes.’ And ‘whatever that takes’ is the key phrase here, for me. Just how far are we prepared to go, to depart from ‘reality’ to make something entertaining?”

— You should click through this, if only for the plentiful examples of the sounds of televised sports: Peregrine Andrews on the Sound of Sport: What is Real?

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