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| Title in English | The Sounds of Mystery and Crime |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Radio dramatisations of Arthur Conan Doyle's detective novels have been part of the world and Czech popular culture for over half a century. The authors of the sound productions have had to deal with several issues in their work, which, despite their apparent practicality, are based on interesting theoretical and aesthetic problems. It is not only the already discussed question of how to "see the unseen", developed in the context of radio dramatisations of plays, but also how to "hear the unheard". How can voice, music or special effects be used to reduce the descriptiveness and dialogicality of the plot? How can we sonically evoke the same aesthetic experience offered by reading? Can the soundscape of Victorian England be captured and described - do we even have the resources to research the 'history of noise' (a parallel with the history of smell)? And what is the fidelity to the original, to the spirit of the subject matter, when transmitted between media? This paper, The Sounds of Mystery and Crime, will use a selection of radio dramatisations of Sherlock Holmes detective stories to present the principles of radio aesthetics and the mechanisms by which individual creators attempt to evoke an aesthetic experience for their listeners that is consistent with the poetics of the original literary text. |
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