Forschungen zur Anmutung des Radios

• Autores: Ines Bose, Golo Föllmer
• Localización: SPIEL: eine Zeitschrift fur Medienkultur, ISSN 0722-7833, Vol. 1, Nº. 1, 2015, págs. 13-52
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • This introductory article discusses the concept of ,Anmutung‘, a German term roughly equivalent to the English term ,stationality‘ that is used by radio practitioners to describe the overall ,look and feel‘ of the audible output of a radio station or programme. In order to grasp the phenomenon behind this practice-based term systematically and make its discussion compatible to scientific discourse, the first part of the article (chapter 2-5) adopts four theoretical concepts from different areas of Humanities, namely the concepts of ,Sound‘, ,Rhetoric‘, ,Aesthetics‘ and ,Identity‘, and shows that their application to radio stationality allows to describe sound-related aspects of language, speech, voice, sound design and mixing techniques used in radio in detail and from different angles. It is argued that the phenomena at stake are forming an aesthetics of the everyday that constitutes through opportunities to enjoy productive processes and productive artefacts. It is further shown that the resulting stationalities are built from complex encodings of values and styles that correspond to social identities of specific target groups. Linking these concepts to existing approaches in radio research, the second part of the article (chapter 6-7) sketches breadth and depth of the field studied by the scholarly network entitled ,Radio Aesthetics – Radio Identities‘ and closes with an exemplary account on the ongoing research on the concept of authenticity of radio presenters.